Re: We need to talk about SourceForge

[Jesús Zazueta]

Crazy idea here but, have you guys considered moving the source code over to github? I find it really convenient to keep in touch with fellow developers on other projects. I guess one of the biggest challenges would be to find a way to support the Octave package repository with a backend that isn't Sourceforge right?

Thanks for your time!

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 at 12:20 Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:

On 15 Jun 2015, at 17:22, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

> As you have probably heard, SourceForge has gone bad.
I haven't heard, can you post links that explain what is going on?

> We need to get
> Octave-Forge off SourceForge.
>
> Are there any easy alternatives? If there isn't a simple turnkey
> solution, I can move our hosting to hg.octave.org. I am thinking of
> installing a Kallithea instance there so we can host hg and a few git
> repos. The OF webpages would have to be moved and updated too, but
> that should not be impossible. We can run PHP on some subdomain of
> octave.org

Everything should be quite easy to move, the web server only needs php for the current scripts to run, generate_packahe_html may need an update.
There may be issues with "pkg install -forge" but I think there is already a redirection in place from octave.org so this should easy to care of.

> - Jordi G. H.
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