(I moved the github page to http://openrisc.github.io to be clearer)
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Jose Teixeira de Sousa <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
