After the initial move, how much more of an advantage would the move be in
the long run for you and us as consumers? Will it allow you to concentrate
on developing the software further? Are they other options?.
Love Stellarium, learning how to use it. Tony Pulliam
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Fabien Chéreau <fabien.cher...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> there is currently a private discussion about moving the code, website,
> wiki and downloads to github, and I think it would be better to move it
> here in the open.
>
> Facts:
> - There is already a Stellarium organisation on github
>
> Pros:
> - sourceforge is currently not reliable, the website and downloads were
> down for more than 24h.
> - the bzr project is not maintained since years, it is very slow with our
> large project and git is a de-facto standard for all developers
> - this could help attract new developers who are used to github
>
> Cons:
> - launchpad translation feature is very nice so we will still need to use
> it (or find an alternative solution)
> - launchpad bug reports is also quite nice
> - moving the website to github would require to recode it without PHP as
> github only serves static pages (I think)
> - moving the wiki to github would also require a lot of work
>
> Please add your points here!
>
> Fabien
>
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