Re: We need to talk about SourceForge

[Philip Nienhuis]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
> As you have probably heard, SourceForge has gone bad. 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
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

It could be coincidence, or maybe the SF folks did read our discussion, but
I just received a SourceForge newsletter with this  stanza:

> # Community Choice Project of the Month for July - It's a Tie! # 
> 
> For one of the July "Community Choice" Projects of the Month, the
> community elected Octave-Forge (
> http://newsletter.sourceforge.net/ct.html?ufl=7&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,2a871,10s8,edko,673m,aphm,bd0b
> ), a central location for the collaborative development of packages for
> GNU Octave, a high-level interpreted language. The Octave-Forge packages
> expand Octave's core functionality by providing field specific features
> via Octave's package system. Some of the individual Octave-Forge packages
> include: image and signal processing, fuzzy logic, instrument control, and
> statistics packages. Download Octave-Forge now. (
> http://newsletter.sourceforge.net/ct.html?ufl=7&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,2a871,10s8,gyve,31bs,aphm,bd0b
> )

Interesting.....  :-)

Philip




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