I support this! Jose
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Christian Svensson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > I know this is an area of deep political arguments, but this will be about > how I think it's time to get rid of the dependency on OpenCores. > > I joined OpenRISC a few years ago and I have never been affiliated with > another project on OpenCores, nor have I ever been paid by a company to do > anything OpenRISC or OpenCores related. I'm just an open-source developer > that hated what happened to SourceForge and has also happened to OpenCores. > > As I see it, OpenCores is a platform that receives little to no new > features and downtime hits productivity hard. That the donation page for a > now de-funct ASIC project is still up and collecting money, and that the > page has ads doesn't help me like the platform. > > Today I forked ~800 cores to Github.under the organisation FreeCores: > https://github.com/freecores > This removes the dependency on OpenCores and allows free hosting of the > source code. > > When it comes to the portal: > I have started to gather Wiki information and assembling it on > http://bluecmd.github.io/ > This is still a work in progress, but the end result is a Git repository > that allows anyone to submit a pull request to change the website - I think > that the low wiki activity makes this feasible. > > Finally: The mailing lists > I would love it if we could kill the opencores.org mailing list and just > use the openrisc.net one. > I never understood the reason to have both, even after reading the old > discussions. Ideally we would just extract the subscriber list, add the > ones who are not on the openrisc.net one and be done with it. > > I can pull a lot of this myself, but I need to know I have support by the > community. > > Sorry if I stomp on toes by doing this, but I feel like the world has > progressed in infrastructure but we have not. > > Regards, > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > OpenRISC mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc > > -- Jose T. de Sousa, PhD Office: +351 213 100 213 R. Alves Redol 9 1000-029 Lisboa Portugal
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