GO on Sourceforge

[midimusic]

I happened to have a look at the old GO website on Sourceforge today and have noted that it has not been updated since 2019.

However I also noted that there had been 189 downloads of 64 bit windows GO version 0.3.1.2330..... this week from this site. Has the news that GO is now on github not yet reached all these people? Or is there some other reason?

csw900

[ClarkeBrunt]

and by now (end of 18th May 2023), Sourceforge says "266 downloads this week". Does github offer any similar stats on downloads?

There is no shortage of information on the Sourceforge page that development is now on github: a link to the github page saying "As of 2021-09-05, this project can be found here...", and then "Official development of GrandOrgue has moved to GitHub, please visit...", so not sure what else can be done.

I wonder if these are downloads by real people, or maybe just 'bots' sucking up the supposedly latest version and then offering it on other sites. Searching for 'grandorgue download" in a search engine readily gave several sites offering the 0.3... version - not sure why anyone would use these sites, but I expect people do, and these other sites won't include the information that that development is now on github.

[rousseldenis]

I think Sourceforge project has a great history on search engines. So, it could be great to have releases deployed there too.

[larspalo]

It's done by a webhook that I can add here on GitHub that will post any release done here also to Sourceforge, so it won't be any real maintenance burden for us. I've no idea how it will actually look like on the Sourceforge page until we've tried it, but I've at least changed the README.rest.txt to state also there that the project has moved here and also updated the wiki link and support help link to point to the current counterparts here.

[kerkovits]

/resources/GrandOrgue.appdata.xml.in l 32. is also obsolete, and points all GNOME users to the old website. There may be other similar instances, as well.

[larspalo]

@kerkovits I've added a PR with updates to the appdata file.

[larspalo]

@rousseldenis @oleg68 I've added a webhook that will post any release done here on GitHub to the old Sourceforge page too. We can see how that looks and if it's not deemed to be beneficial, we can easily remove the webhook integration anytime.