[SciPy-Dev] the demise of SciPy Central

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017, at 00:38, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
>
> No plan yet. If I'd have to take a stab at it, I'd suggest:
>
> 1. Put the content (https://github.com/scipy/SciPyCentral#backup-and-
> restore) somewhere accessible
> 2. Take the last version of each script/notebook, discard the history.
> 3. Write some code to transform all of those into notebooks suitable for
> inclusion in https://github.com/scipy/scipy-cookbook
> 4. Go through by hand, see what's in good shape, and send PRs to
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy-cookbook for those.
>
> That may be quite a bit of work though. At least (1) should be done before
> decommissioning the server.
>
>
> This is a perfect student project; I'm going to try and find someone to
> work on it.
>

That would be awesome!

@Pauli/Surya: can one of you do (1)? I think you're the only ones with
server access?

Cheers,
Ralf



> Thanks for this outline,
>
> Stéfan
>
>
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