Hi,
On 10/24/18 7:43 PM, doctormo@...23... wrote:
Our proposal: Use FossHub as the primary download mirror, […]
I would not agree with that.
(0) They are free to host a mirror of our files (which they already do : https://www.fosshub.com/Inkscape.html * ),
but
(1) we already have fastly as a powerful CDN [so we don't really "need" the service];
(2) Their business model of having an advertisement banner to get income is opposed to my principles (also, I'm not sure how much traffic we would send them, but 20k$ is like 4M views which we would probably send over a year (Martin, do you know how many yearly page views we have on the /releases/ section of the website ?) ); so in addition it would look financially strictly worse than putting an ad on inkscape.org
(3) Their policies** are sort of restrictive and very much script-unfriendly
(4) Loss of control over the files served, from us (not our website) and for people in general (served from a website that is afaik not open source*** while our website is)
(5) Centralization of official (primary) downloads places for high-profile open source software makes for high-profile targets. They were already pwnd 2 years ago**** when their major hosted projects was Audacity, with unsalted password exposed and people downloading malware.