What is the past and future the old-fashioned open source software 'SourceForge' talks about?

SourceForge known as open source software (OSS) development and download site, as of 2018, "access by more than 1 million users" and "downloading times of software one hundred million times a month", " About 3.7 million registrants "has reached the name" and is known as one of the huge OSS sites with both name and reality. Sorry, SourceForge, but I was never able to grow up to a smooth sail. I explain what kind of problems SouceForge faced in the past and how we are going to proceed in the future on the blog of the service.

A Brief History of SourceForge, and a Look Towards the Future - SourceForge Community Blog
https://sourceforge.net/blog/brief-history-sourceforge-look-to-future/

SourceForge founded in 1999 succeeded in increasing the number of registered OSS communities and continued to grow steadily. However, the incident will occur in 2014. When downloading and installing OSS 's FTP client software " FileZilla " from SourceForge, malware was also installed. This was caused by a malicious third party loading malware into FileZilla, but since many people who suffered damage do not know the fact, "SourceForge pretends to be OSS and distributes malware. I'm going to drop the evaluation greatly as "I am doing."

In 2015, it was discovered that SourceForge bundled software such as Norton with the author without permission in the installer of OSS image editing software " GIMP for Windows " this time. GIMP authors developed into circumstances that protested against SourceForge, SourceForge's evaluation has declined even further. After that, the rise of GitHub of the competitive service, etc. will cause the existence of SourceForge to be diluted.

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SourceForge severely looked at this problem and made improvements in 2016 to "Do not bundle third party software into installers". In order to prevent the same problem as FileZilla from recurring, SourceForge continues to improve, "Implementation of malware scanning function in each project", "HTTPS conversion of each page of the OSS community in SourceForge", " multi-factor authentication "We are strengthening security functions such as" organizing special teams and implementing tools to eliminate malicious advertisements ". Also, SourceForge's UI and improvements have been implemented, and at the time of writing the article is working on strengthening development tools.

SourceForge has released GitHub Importer for communities that are developing OSS on GitHub . This tool copies the data saved in GitHub to SourceForge, which means that data migration can be done easily. SourceForge says "It is not necessarily required to migrate to SourceForge," he says, "You can use SourceForge as a backup of GitHub". In addition, SourceForge says to the community using GitHub Importer "I use SourceForge on this occasion and I want you to actually evaluate which is superior to GitHub."