Hi,
> On Nov 29, 2021, at 11:10 PM, Mark Olesen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A centralized location is very serious to me as a developer.
I agree.
Originally, the Orphanage was only a semi-official place I used to prepare and
maintain packages that would be uploaded to the Repository. It took rather a
long time to put together and every package was there. However, only projects
that were thought to be dead were visible to the public. There has been
confusion in the community for a very long time on where to go to submit bug
reports and/or contribute to a project. With feedback from the community here
and other locations, we decided to make some changes to the Orphanage.
We moved from gitlab.com/FDOS <http://gitlab.com/FDOS> to gitlab.com/FreeDOS
<http://gitlab.com/FreeDOS>, for several reasons. One reason was for brand and
name consistency. you have the Official FreeDOS website at freedos.org
<http://freedos.org/>. And now the official development and preparation
repository at gitlab.com/FreeDOS <http://gitlab.com/FreeDOS>. All the projects
are visible to the public now with only a couple exceptions. So, the name
Orphanage no longer is applicable.
Although every project is on gitlab.com/FreeDOS <http://gitlab.com/FreeDOS>,
not every project is developed there. Projects that are developed elsewhere
have a prominent notice with a link to their development site (see
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/edlin <https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/edlin>
or https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/freecom
<https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/freecom> for examples). As time moves on and
if a project is moved or abandoned by it’s developer, the notice can be changed
or that version could take over maintaining the project. GitLab permissions are
very flexible and if a developer wishes, they could move their project to
gitlab.com/FreeDOS <http://gitlab.com/FreeDOS> and just maintain it there.
Regardless of wether a project is alive or dead, is developed in the GitLab
Archive or elsewhere, it now provides a single first stop location for someone
to contribute.
And their is no need to worry about the Archive going away or being abandoned
by me. If I were struck by lightning, no problem. Jim has Owner level access to
gitlab.com/FreeDOS <http://gitlab.com/FreeDOS> and could manage it or appoint
someone to handle it.
>> When referring to all the different repositories, to avoid confusion (at
>> least to/for me), I refer to them as follows:
That reminds me… I should have stated the purpose for each of the different
locations.
>> The Official Software Repository,
>> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/
>>
>> <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/>
Mostly maintained by me. It is the home for packages that can be directly
installed by a package manager like FDNPKG. Or, downloaded and installed
locally. It is the primary place for end-users to fetch package updates to
software that “ships” with FreeDOS.
>> The FreeDOS Archive, https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS <https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS>
Official Development and Package Preparation Repository/Archive. Maintained by
me and others.
>> The FreeDOS Mirrors,
>> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/
>> <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/>
Maintained by Jim. Mirrors of original versions of software. The programs there
may require a little to no work to use with FreeDOS. On the other hand, they
may require compiling or other changes.
>> The FreeDOS Website, https://www.freedos.org
>>
>> My Unofficial Software Repository, https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/
>> <https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/>
Maintained by me. Running the same repo management software and similar to the
Official Software Repository. It is not a mirror of the Official Repo. My
policy for packages is different on my repository. It is not limited to just
open source. As long as I can legally distribute it, I’m willing to add it. All
of the Official packages are there. But, there are more things there as well.
Mostly it comes down to how much time I can spend adding stuff to it. On a side
note, I usually update/add packages there a little while before the Official
Repo.
>> My FreeDOS Related Server, https://fd.lod.bz <https://fd.lod.bz/>
Holds my Repo, HTML version of RBIL, Package Survey and some other stuff all
related to FreeDOS or at least DOS.
:-)
Jerome
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