<story><title>Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub</title><url>https://a-sf-mirror.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Why Github? Copying from one commercial provider to another doesn&amp;#x27;t solve the fundamental problem. Using git helps, but most of those old repos will never get cloned.&lt;p&gt;In 10 years time, Github may be the tired old service that gets acquired by a hedge fund that decides to monetize their repos. Such things are part of the corporate lifecycle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>&amp;gt; In 10 years time, Github may be the tired old service that gets acquired by a hedge fund that decides to monetize their repos. Such things are part of the corporate lifecycle.&lt;p&gt;So fix it in 10 years. Git makes that easy.&lt;p&gt;Point me to a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; alternative to github that matches all your ideals. A &lt;i&gt;free&lt;/i&gt; alternative to github - free as in beer, unless you&amp;#x27;re willing to fund this effort yourself, of course?&lt;p&gt;We migrated one of our projects from Sourceforge to Github, and all the stallmen came out of their rock to tell us how Github is evil, how Savannah is the only true alternative, pah. &amp;quot;Absolute freedom of software&amp;quot; is nice but it&amp;#x27;s not the only requirement. Savannah has the usability of a rusty wrench and will probably shut down without warning long before Github &amp;quot;turns evil&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Some people are just so far detached from reality when suggesting that stuff isn&amp;#x27;t perfect. Github is pretty damn amazing. If you want to use foss alternative like Gitlab, more power to you, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t make them ideal in every situation.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub</title><url>https://a-sf-mirror.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Why Github? Copying from one commercial provider to another doesn&amp;#x27;t solve the fundamental problem. Using git helps, but most of those old repos will never get cloned.&lt;p&gt;In 10 years time, Github may be the tired old service that gets acquired by a hedge fund that decides to monetize their repos. Such things are part of the corporate lifecycle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goldfeld</author><text>Ten years from now for all we know we could all have so much cheap storage and bandwidth and good, open p2p software that all coders get to archive their own full copy of github&amp;#x27;s repos. So the focus should be on getting today&amp;#x27;s job done now.</text></comment>