Github are done, move to Gitlab or elsewhere.
Github is done. Remove any projects you have from Github, as soon as possible. I deleted my own account just then.
For those who came in late:
Microsoft have just acquired Github for nearly $8 billion, completely invalidating any purpose Github ever served.
There is a giant exodus (13 thousand projects at writing, and climbing) to Gitlab, and MS already have shills posting on Gitlab’s Twitter feed trying to slow the bleeding. It’s not working, the migration is accelerating as the news spreads.
Gitlab are far from perfect. Google has a big stake in them, and they endorse ‘Modern’ rubbish like DevOps. Their site is also not easy to use (not that Github’s was).
But currently Gitlab are the lifeboat. Others will emerge.
Gitlab:
Gitlab migration (from Github) assistance page:
It will try and sell you on their commercial options (which, who knows, you may want) but the free option is always available. These sites work by having a huge population of free projects, most of which stagnate but give the site its legitimacy in the first place. Then on top of that they maintain a very large population of commercial projects which bring in a substantial revenue. This is precisely how Github worked (and why MS felt it was worth $8 billion of their own dwindling revenue.) Don’t feel guilty about using the free option, it’s what props them up.
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/
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I've had to jump ship to LibreOffice, sadly, after swearing that I wouldn't. The menus in OpenOffice were just flickering abominably and I couldn't stop it no matter what I did.That said, I may go back to OO at a future date.
One thing is that if OO crashes it tells you what went wrong, with LO you just have to guess and it's insane!
The 3rd party EPUB exporter seems to work beautifully on both OO and LO, and has actually been improved a bit by its authors, the EPUB it makes now is better behaved.
Just wanted to drop by over here on your GR page and tell you that I found the interview you did on the Apache blog in 2015 for using OO to write your books. Incidentally, I am also using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and OO as well for my seven installment series. It's nice to know I'm not the only one using 'nux & open source to write. Who knows - I may even pen something with vim!