Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CGRAN down indefinitely, but hopefully not for long (want feedback)

[Chris Kuethe]

CGRAN is useful and I'd like to see it live on in some form, at least as a directory of modules that people are developing. My gut feeling is that github is a good way forward.

I'm not sure what kind of quality assertion you want to make by including something in CGRAN (clueful developers? decent module architecture? likely to be reusable? unlikely to be abandon-/gradstudent-ware...), but having a curated directory seems better than searching for "gnuradio" and finding 527 stupid repositories of random grc experiments that only work with GR3.5.

I found the GR3.6 to 3.7 migration page last night and I suddenly find myself motivated to fork all these old modules and try update them to the new API. Anyone got any statistics on how community involvement changed after their projects moved to or from github?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:01 AM, George Nychis <address@hidden> wrote:

The machine that runs CGRAN down in some basement somewhere at Carnegie Mellon has hit some issues again.  Given that I'm no longer at the university, these issues are becoming harder for me to address.  At this point, it's probably best for CGRAN to "move on" as we've all been in discussion about over time.  

What I can do if everyone still finds CGRAN useful is:

   1.  Provide a more reliable host and machine for it

   2.  Update it to be more useful to the community (e.g., more towards git)

It still gets a lot of hits (~16,000 a month) and every time it goes down people hunt me down and ask when it's coming back up.  So it seems as though the community still uses it.

I can update it with Pybombs or Gitlib or whatever people feel is appropriate.  It can be more of a portal page even, without a repository if most people just use Github now anyway.  Do people still like it is a standalone service, or is it better to just "roll it in" to the GNU Radio webpage somewhere now?  I want to do whatever the community finds is most useful.

Thanks!

George

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