[PD-dev] Github being bought by MS

[Max]

As seen at the month long outrage of the linuxaudio.org server with 
mailinglist, a university hosted server isn't the golden failsafe 
solution either.

m.

On 05.06.2018 16:05, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> I originally started using Github for Pd mainly because it would make it 
> far easier for people to contribute to the project, ie. PR instead of 
> .patch files. It's definitely delivered on that aspect.
> 
> I also agree on not jumping ship on a whim. It would be better to 
> leverage one of the university connections and find a stable, more long 
> term location. Its git, after all, so it's easy to just push to a new 
> location. It becomes harder to carry the unfinished work, like open PRs 
> with us, so that would need to be managed/mirrored for a while.
> 
> I also set up a Gitlab some of us are using internally at ZKM and it's 
> pretty useful so far. As always, someone needs to maintain and backup 
> the server and it would be great if a university IT department could 
> handle that. :)
> 
>> On Jun 5, 2018, at 6:00 AM, pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at 
>> <mailto:pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at> wrote:
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>> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:27:48 +0200
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>> <mailto:christof.ressi at gmx.at>>
>> To: pd-dev <pd-dev at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-dev at lists.iem.at>>
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>> Actually, Sourceforge has been pretty evil in the past (like injecting 
>> installers with adware) and the new owners are still trying to recover 
>> from it. I guess Microsoft will be very careful not to mess up things 
>> with GitHub :-)
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