Re: Moving financial package from SourceForge

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 16:16:41 +0000, Parsiad Azimzadeh wrote:
>> I would like to move the financial package
>> http://octave.sourceforge.net/financial/index.html to GitHub
>> https://github.com/octave-financial/, due to previous conversations on the
>> mailing list about SourceForge's new business model.
>>
>> I'm not sure, however, if I should do this: is it better to make an Octave
>> organization on GitHub? Or is it better to avoid GitHub altogether?
>> Suggestions very welcome.
>
> The primary advantage of GitHub is (potential) contributors and project
> discovery.
>
> Both platforms offer VCS hosting and hosting of source and binary
> releases (I think).
>
> Both platforms are commercial and proprietary.
>
> IMHO one is no more "evil" than the other, both are equally non-free. I
> am personally comfortable using either one (with my own self-hosted
> copies of projects that are important to me).
>
> One important thing to point out is that there has been and is still a
> policy in effect that all "official" packages [1] must have a code
> repository hosted within the SourceForge Octave Forge project. So even
> if your primary development occurs on GitHub (or elsewhere), there must
> be a SourceForge mirror that is updated at least once every time you
> want to make a release.
>
> [1]: meaning "can be installed with `pkg install -forge`"
This can change anytime! in particular `pkg install -url "htttp://myrepo.org"`
But this is for another thread.

>
> --
> mike
>