Re: [python-control-developers] SourceForge discussion

[Richard M. <mu...@cd...>]

Hi Clancy.  Thanks for the note and sorry for the delayed reply.  I’m cc’ing the developers list, in case others want to chime in on this.  (I couldn’t actually read the discussion you referenced because the scipy.org server is not responding right now.)

Right now, I think the main things that we are using on SourceForge are the mailing lists + file distribution.  I think the file distribution is no longer useful (use PyPI).  Mailing lists are still useful, but perhaps we use Google Groups?  Or does github have something we can use instead?

In the meantime, I’ve updated my wiki page to point to the current python-control homepage (on sourceforge, for now).

-richard

> On 28 May 15, at 08:17, Clancy Rowley <cwr...@Pr...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> I thought I'd point out that there's been a recent discussion on the SciPy developer's mailing list about SourceForge and how they've been doing some sketchy things with peoples' projects, for instance taking over projects, making their own installer wrappers, and bundling them with adware:
> 
> http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/2015-May/020719.html
> 
> The SciPy folks are discussing moving away from SourceForge altogether.  Just thought I'd let you know about this, for python-control, or any other projects you might have on SourceForge.
> 
> For python-control, seems to me we are fine with GitHub and PyPI, so I don't see a problem with ditching SourceForge altogether.
> 
> I did discover, however, that if you google "python control" the first result is your wiki page here:
> 	https://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/wiki/Control_Systems_Library_for_Python
> which is very out of date, and doesn't have links to the current releases or documentation.  So it might be good to update that when you have a chance.
> 
> -clancy