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diff --git a/www/history.html b/www/history.html index f2fe17fb..9f4912f4 100644 --- a/www/history.html +++ b/www/history.html @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ remote-procedure-call-like way (e.g., without having to worry about gpsd's protocol or how to unpack its data into a C structure).</p> <p>Eric's work became the prototype for gpsd-2.0. In mid-August of -2004, Eric moved the project to berlios.de with the approval and +2004, Eric moved the project to Berlios with the approval and cooperation of all three of the 1.x maintainers. (The main reason for that choice of hosting site was that it was among the first to offer Subversion, which was new technology at the time and which @@ -170,7 +170,12 @@ marine AIS receivers and pass it to clients.</p> href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Bad-Code-Offsets-Open-Web-Innovation.asp">won</a> the first Good Code Grant from the Alliance for Code Excellence.</p> -<p>In March 2010 the project moved from Subversion to git.</p> +<p>In March 2010 the project changed version-control systems, moving +from Subversion to git. In April 2011, it changed build systems, +dumped autotools for scons.</p> + +<p>In late September 2011, the announcement that the Berlios forge site +would be shutting down at the end of 2011 forced the project to move.</p> <p>Further forks of <code>gpsd</code> seem unlikely, as the project is now sufficiently large and visible to co-opt most developers who might |