I wasn't involved at the time, but was it because
matplotlib.github.com is slower?

As far as I can see the github docs are as up-to-date as the
souceforge ones. (although reading the commit log on the docs repo
doesn't seem to agree with that statement)

All in all, sounds promising.

On 10 August 2012 15:26, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> I know we had experimented with moving the main documentation website to
> matplotlib.github.com a while ago (and in fact there's still an old
> version of the docs sitting there).  I can't remember the reason we
> chose to remain at matplotlib.sourceforge.net and searching the mailing
> list archive isn't helping jog my memory there.
>
> I'd like to move to github's hosting if possible because rsyncing to
> sourceforge is slow as molasses and doesn't always work reliably.
>
> Supporting existing links to matplotlib.sourceforge.net is of course
> very important, and I would put whatever redirects we need to keep those
> working in any event.
>
> Mike
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