Downloads policy of Google Code changed

[Václav Zeman]

On 04/02/2014 02:35 PM, Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am the developer of a port (sysutils/clone) which is hosted on
> Google Code (https://code.google.com/p/clone/). In the past, I
> prepared release snapshots for the ports tree to be downloaded from
> the very projects site.
> 
> At the end of the last year, Google Code changed their policy to not
> to allow anymore new downloads from the projects sites, while old
> downloads are still available, at least for the time being.
> 
> I am going to prepare a new release for the FreeBSD ports, and I am
> now in doubt where to place the release snapshot of the source code:
> 
> Questions: Is it acceptable for FreeBSD, if I would place new
> snapshots on one of my personal sites? How do others deal with the
> new policy on GC? Is it perhaps better to move the whole project to
> another service, which one?
> 
> Best regards
> 

If I were you I would just create a shadow project on SourceForge and
place just files there.

-- 
VZ

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