Hi all,
Short version
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We're
terminating use of this mailing list per June 26 2017. Please subscribe
to
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subject.
Long version
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Some weeks ago,
SourceForge started sending out "re-subscription" requests to users on
all SourceForge mailing lists, announcing they'll unsubscribe everybody
who does not respond before June 26. At this time, it's not clear
whether or not they sent re-subscription requests to all users or only
to "SourceForge users"
(
https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/15160/#c3eb), which means
many subscribers could be silently dropped. At the same time, they
blocked administrator access to the mailing list membership interface.
No heads-up or advance notification was sent to the list administrators
that this would happen, effectively hijacking the membership
information.
In response to the above, I have contacted
SourceForge multiple times, kindly asking them to provide the project
with the data they have taken from it. Unfortunately, their answer was
(and remained) "No.".
We're aware that they take these steps
as a result of their interpretation of privacy laws and unsolicited
e-mail regulation. We strongly disagree with this interpretation, as
every member of our mailing list has subscribed themselves at one point
or another in the past *and* monthly mailing list membership reminders
are being sent out.
To us (the members of the project's core
team), it is not only this difference in interpretation but very much
about the lack of notification before these changes are being made. The
lack of notification means to us that SourceForge isn't the dependable,
trustworthy partner that we (still) took them to be.
Over the
last years, many projects left SourceForge in disappointment and/or
anger due to various decisions taken by SourceForge, implemented with a
lack of communication; e.g. because of adware being inserted into their
downloads or other policies being put in place.
Our time to
leave SourceForge has come today. With sadness, I must say that, for us
too, SourceForge has proven to be an untrustworthy partner in Open
Source. We will stop using the mailing lists and uploading releases.
We'll close down the project as much as SourceForge will allow us.
We're
closing down this mailing list. Please subscribe to
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subject. Alternatively, you can subscribe through the web-interface
hosted at
https://lists.ledgersmb.org/.
The following resources from here on (and might have before):
* Bugs:
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues* Releases:
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases* Mailing lists:
https://lists.ledgersmb.org/* Mailing list archives:
http://archive.ledgersmb.org/* Downloads: (attached to the releases on GitHub)
with the old download archive hosted at
https://download.ledgersmb.org/ (note that as of this writing, we're in the process of adding that domain to the DNS)