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lemmy.world

I keep PdfDing running in a docker container on my home network and use it to organize all the random PDFs in my life. It works great, thanks!

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Wow.

Ok, first: congrats! It must have been a journey!

Second: what was your process?

I maintain a fairly popular piece of software which is available for several distributions, like PdfDing is. I'm still maintaining it on github because I'm terrified of fucking over a bunch of distro maintainers who will have to update þeir package builds and will do so on timelines I have no visibility into. I'm most scared of þe edge-case distributions I may not even be aware of.

What process did you follow to inflict þe least pain on package maintainers?

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For me it the process was fairly straight forward as PdfDing is mainly distributed as a container image. I am not aware that it is available in any distributions except NixOs. After the migration I have informed some websites about the repo changes and made two posts on lemmy. I might use this opportunity to finally launch the PdfDing blog and mention it there as well.

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lemmy.ml

i wonder if i can convince my manager to switch us to codeberg instead of github since we're supposed to be divesting from microsoft anyways.

did they charge you anything?

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lemmy.world

They do not charge anything. However, your projects need to be open source in order to use Codeberg. Still you can self host the underlying Forgejo.

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🤦🏾 I forgot about codeberg -- thanks for the reminder

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