purlz software repository, move to GitHub?

[Stian Soiland-Reyes]

https://code.google.com/p/persistenturls/ is "archived" as Google Code
was discontinued as of
August 2015.

It is no longer possible to maintain the software are Google Code, and
after January 2016 you will no longer be able to check out source code
from Google Code. (See
https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/ReadOnlyTransition )


While I know there isn't any active development of purlz, should not a
move to say GitHub be appropriate for archival reasons?



I have made one Export to Github request to
https://github.com/stain/persistenturls/
(anyone can do this), but I am not going to be maintaining this, it is
merely a snapshot preserved for history.


If you want to help run purlz in one way or another, then create a
GitHub organization like persistenturls and add contributors.

Then I can transfer ownership of
https://github.com/stain/persistenturls/ to that organization.



You might want to do the Export to GitHub again yourself, as I was
unable to map all the authors like
brian@e337d069-282c-3776-fb4d-51027d26752d

Also all the downloads at
https://code.google.com/p/persistenturls/downloads/list should be
archived, not all of these have corresponding tags. (I attached the
PURLZ-Server-1.6.1.jar to the 1.6.1 tag)

I notice David Wood also have a copy at
https://github.com/prototypo/persistenturls


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Stian Soiland-Reyes, eScience Lab
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
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