SourceForge is a very good example of why common-lisp.net should continue to provide repository hosting and you should host your projects' official repositories on c-l.net and encourage others to do the same.
In 2013 SourceForge was acquired by Dice Holdings, who proceeded to do things like infect downloadable binaries with spyware and adware. Fortunately for SourceForge users it was again sold to another company in 2016 who stopped the adware. For now.
I made the mistake of moving some of my projects' official repositories to github in 2012, and plan to move them back to c-l.net this year. You can always use github as another remote and get the benefits of their pull request interface.
In the long run having a non-profit entity like common-lisp.net provide Free Software hosting is a lot less work than dealing with "free" accounts from for-profit corporations that can modify or take away the service at any time (Google Code is a good example here).
Vladimir
Marco Antoniotti marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu writes:
I am not that happy about github (or sf.net or whatever).
I don’t like the github “one-size-fits-all” basic setup (sf.net is better in that respect).
My preference would be to keep c-l.net as is; however, I am not doing much work about it :)
Cheers — MA
On May 7, 2017, at 07:32 , Raymond Toy toy.raymond@gmail.com wrote:
If there's no code hosting, then what is the purpose of c-l.net? Without the repositories, that only leaves the mailing lists and a few other random things, I think.
I am grateful for everything that c-l.net provides. Otherwise, I'd have to host them myself or find some other means of hosting everything else except the repos (for which there are many alternatives).
On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Anton Vodonosov avodonosov@yandex.ru wrote: Several more words.
For many projects github pages might be enough. Also, code hosting can be done on github . Maybe we should encourage this to free cl.net supporters from maintenance of code hosting?
06.05.2017, 13:15, "Erik Huelsmann" ehuels@gmail.com:
Hi Daniel, Anton,
Thanks for your reactions. That's enough to decide not to change our ways.
Regards,
Erik.
On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Kochmański daniel@turtleware.eu wrote: Same goes for me, I host various static files on both ECL and McCLIM projects (documentation, papers, in case of ECL - releases).
Regards, Daniel
Anton Vodonosov writes:
In cl-test-grid I store reports as static files on cl.net. Not sure it's possible with gitlab pages. Best regards,
- Anton
06.05.2017, 01:30, "Erik Huelsmann" ehuels@gmail.com:
Hi all, Since the inception of Common-Lisp.net, we have offered projects the option to log in on the host through ssh connections to manage their hosted project pages (https://common-lisp.net/project/*). As off December 2016, GitLab - the software we use to provide the majority of the repositories on the site - includes a hosting offer for static pages: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/24/were-bringing-gitlab-pages-to-community-... I've not studied the functionality in depth, but I'm wondering: would the time have come to start moving the project pages into GitLab by using this offering and start moving away from having OS-based accounts? Would people mind or even like to move to this functionality? Regards,
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-- Bye,
Erik.
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