It was decided a long time ago to host these projects independently. Code warehouses bear the risk of becoming permanently unavailable as well as the risk that they will, like SourceForge, start to aggressively monetize in morally questionable ways.
As the entire hosting of forge is something I undertake at my own expense and using my own time, I made the decision to migrate to Git and a github-like software by myself, prompted by the server it used to be on going away. - Melanie On 25 Jun 2015, at 18:53, Blake <[email protected]> wrote: Greetings, Was this migration discussed somewhere? I'm curious as to why OpenSim does not move to GitHub and use the PullRequest system to make it easier for non-core contributions? Thanks, Blake > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Fly Man <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a perfect logical explanation Melanie, thanks for making that clear. > > 2015-06-24 12:08 GMT+02:00 Melanie <[email protected]>: >> Because it is more convenient for me to have these under my name until the >> maintainers make accounts and I can pass the projects to them. By now, two >> of them have already been assigned to kcozens who can now add other >> collaborators. >> >> - Melanie >> >> >> On 24 Jun 2015, at 11:46, Fly Man <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Let me rephrase the question: Why is it under YOUR name and not under for >> instance Overte Foundation >> >> When someone told me about the Forge change earlier last week, they were >> kinda amazed to see that all the projects I started/contributed upon were >> now placed under the name of a single Core developer instead of the Overte >> Foundation which would have made more sense. >> >> 2015-06-23 23:59 GMT+02:00 Melanie <[email protected]>: >>> Because those are the projects I know are still alive, so not legacy. >>> >>> - M >>> >>> >>> On 23 Jun 2015, at 22:13, Fly Man <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Melanie, >>> >>> Is there a specific reason why everything else is put under legacy-projects >>> but all the following projects are under your name now ? >>> >>> * OpenSimGroups >>> * OpenCurrency >>> * OpenSimSearch >>> * OpenSimProfile >>> >>> Last I checked the GForge those project were not put under 1 account but 10 >>> people had access to it. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Opensim-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Opensim-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
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