Re: Moving financial package from SourceForge

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Parsiad Azimzadeh
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to move the financial package
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/financial/index.html to GitHub
> https://github.com/octave-financial/, due to previous conversations on the
> mailing list about SourceForge's new business model.
>
> I'm not sure, however, if I should do this: is it better to make an Octave
> organization on GitHub? Or is it better to avoid GitHub altogether?
> Suggestions very welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Parsiad
> --
> Parsiad Azimzadeh [http://parsiad.ca]
> PhD candidate
>
> DC 3594 - University of Waterloo,
> 200 University Avenue West,
> Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1

My opinion is that the future of Octave-Forge should be distributed.
This means no centralized repo, every dev host their package where
they want and OF just handles the url [1].
So I am in favor of the move.

[1]: http://pkg.julialang.org/