Re: [python-control-developers] SourceForge discussion

[Scott C. L. <sli...@cd...>]

On 31/05/15 14:11, Richard Murray wrote:
> 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.)
> 

There is a story on Ars Technica summarizing the recent events to which
I suspect Clancy is referring;
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/

> 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?
> 

I have found no offering of mailing lists on GitHub.

I support moving to Google Groups.

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

The landing page of http://python-control.readthedocs.org will subsume
the content of the SourceForge homepage if a few figures are added.