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Re:Tmux 2.0 released by mrmondo on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:12PM (#9508697)
I was thinking exactly this, I just logged a bug for them to move the project: https://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tickets/192/
Re:Tmux 2.0 released by tslocum on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:43PM (#9508873)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it's closed. Without comment.
Re:Tmux 2.0 released by nchammas on Thursday May 07, 2015 @10:41PM (#9509721)
Searching the tmux mailing list [0], it looks like there were some recent discussions about migrating to GitHub.

Basically, it looks like the developers don't see any benefit to migrating that outweighs the cost of a migration. [1]

There is a GitHub mirror [2] maintained by, I think, one of the developers, but they don't accept pull requests.

It's interesting to note that, for such a popular project like tmux, there are so few contributors. [3] Five, to be exact.

Maybe that's an artifact of how the mirroring to GitHub works (perhaps the commit authors aren't translated correctly?), but I suspect it's more an artifact of an outdated contribution process and tooling.

[0] http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/mailman/search/?q=github

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/mailman/message/33826395/

[2] https://github.com/ThomasAdam/tmux

[3] https://github.com/ThomasAdam/tmux/graphs/contributors

Re:Tmux 2.0 released by nicm on Friday May 08, 2015 @03:51AM (#9510454)
lots of people have contributed to tmux (on a quick grep through the logs, probably ~25 have made significant or multiple contributions, ~170 have made small contributions)
Re:Tmux 2.0 released by nchammas on Friday May 08, 2015 @09:53AM (#9511703)
Hi Nicholas! That's good to hear, and definitely makes more sense given how popular and old tmux is as a project.

So I guess something just didn't translate correctly to Thomas's GitHub mirror.