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Re: [autonomo.us] StatusNet, Free Social and GNU social merge
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Mike Linksvayer |
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Re: [autonomo.us] StatusNet, Free Social and GNU social merge |
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Sat, 8 Jun 2013 13:09:45 -0700 |
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Matt Lee <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hatched on the evening of LibrePlanet 2012 (!!) and work-in-progress ever
> since:
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> On June 8th, 2013 the developers of GNU social are pleased to announce
> a merger with both the Free Social project and the StatusNet
> project. Free Social developer and founder, Mikael Nordfeldth and GNU
> social founder, Matt Lee will co-manage the project. StatusNet founder
> and Federated Web pioneer Evan Prodromou, will remain active on the
> project as an advisor and occasional contributor.
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> Effective immediately, GNU social now has a highly tested and
> production-quality codebase, serving millions of social interactions
> across the federated social web. We plan to continue to develop the
> software, add new features and plan greater interoperability with
> existing and future free software social platforms, including pump.io.
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> A release (version 1.1.1) of GNU social is planned very shortly, which
> will be the first release under the new project structure.
Awesome, congratulations to all involved!
Where is the canonical project home page, bug tracker, and mainline
repository? Does the name StatusNet go away completely from now? It'd
reduce confusion a lot if these were answered unambiguously in any
announcement, and extant pages where updated to reflect the answers.
Mike