Copperline moves to its own GitHub organisation
A short housekeeping note: the Copperline repositories have moved from my personal GitHub account, LinuxJedi, to a new organisation at github.com/CopperlineHQ. The repository names are unchanged, so the emulator now lives at CopperlineHQ/Copperline, this website at CopperlineHQ/copperline.github.io, and alongside them retro32-term, the Amiga ANSI terminal emulator for serial connections.
The reason for the move is simple: Copperline is becoming a community that is bigger than just me. To be precise about what that does and does not mean: I am still the only member of the organisation 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), whose name is one of several in the recent release credits, and 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, is a better fit for all of that.
One more thing 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 - I have no plans to break them - so there is no deadline on updating anything. If you would rather your checkout point 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 about how you download, build or run Copperline changes. The links on this site have all been updated to the new organisation; if you spot one I missed, an issue on the site repository is welcome.
- Andrew Hutchings (LinuxJedi) · linuxjedi.co.uk