Copperline moves to its own GitHub organization
The Copperline repositories have moved from my personal GitHub account, LinuxJedi, to a new organization at github.com/CopperlineHQ. The repository names are unchanged, so the emulator now lives at CopperlineHQ/Copperline and this website at CopperlineHQ/copperline.github.io. Alongside them is retro32-term, the Amiga ANSI terminal emulator for serial connections.
The reason for the move is that Copperline is becoming a community bigger than just me. I am still the only member of the organization and the only maintainer, so nothing about who owns or ships the code has changed. But the work going into Copperline, and the things being built around it, already come from more people than me.
The evidence is on this site already. The big-box support in 0.12.0 came from Bernie Innocenti (@codewiz), one of several names in the recent release credits. The projects page lists independent work: Simon Dick's self-hosted Docker image of the browser build, and Retro32's page running Copperline in the browser as the front door to their BBS. retro32-term, above, is the terminal software developed for that installation. A namespace that belongs to the project rather than to my personal account, with room for more than one repository, fits all of that better.
On the community side, a Discord server for development discussion is on its way. There is no invite link yet. I will announce it here when it opens.
What changes for you
Nothing breaks. GitHub keeps redirects in place after a transfer, so existing links and bookmarks land in the right place, and a clone with a LinuxJedi remote keeps pushing and pulling as before. The old URLs will keep redirecting for the foreseeable future, and I have no plans to break them, so there is no deadline for updating anything. If you would rather your checkout pointed at the new name:
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/CopperlineHQ/Copperline.gitThe Homebrew tap follows the repository, so the tap command is now:
brew tap CopperlineHQ/copperline https://github.com/CopperlineHQ/CopperlineBeyond that, nothing changes about how you download, build or run Copperline. The links on this site have all been updated to the new organization. If you spot one I missed, please open an issue on the site repository.
- Andrew Hutchings (LinuxJedi) · linuxjedi.co.uk