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Re: mintty project
- From: Frank Fesevur <ffes at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:15:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: mintty project
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2015-06-04 8:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Wolff:
> I have acquired that account meanwhile but apparently it cannot be turned
> into an org. account, rather it would need to be attached to a separate org.
> account (weird policy).
Does this help?
https://help.github.com/articles/converting-a-user-into-an-organization/
> Actually there is also an orphaned github account called "cygwin" which
> could be claimed by a cygwin maintainer (Corinna?), maybe as an option to
> host cygwin packages.
Suggested that as well in my previous mail.
> Apart from that, I am still hesitating to go with github.com. What do people
> think about gitlab.com instead? It makes a more serious impression and has
> some more professional features. Or maybe codebase.com?
I cannot tell you anything about the other sites you mention. But I
know that the community is at github at the moment. Many examples
exist. See the graph Tony posted. I experienced it myself as well. Or
see the "Our choice of using GitHub" section on this blogpost of
Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx
I am sure the community will build around mintty, once people start to
noticed the move. And for that ask Andy to put a link to the new repo
on the Google Code page.
Regards,
Frank
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