Make this repo public

[ryan-jacobs]

This is a bit past-due. The build team already discussed and approved making the repo public, and I have also advocated for this to other org leadership with supportive feedback. So it's time to finalize the move to open-development on this project.

• [x] Update github status to make repo public
• [x] Redirect changelog to GitHub release page
• [x] Update public about page to link to repo. This can be contextualized as a way to "see what enhancements and fixes CRL is working on or has recently completed"
• [x] Internal communication for visibility. This is in parallel to other projects moving toward open-development.

GPL licensing terms will be automatically inherited from core VuFind codebase, so no licensing steps are needed

[ryan-jacobs]

I suppose there is the question of fork status. We originally forked the main VuFind repo, but then detached from the fork so that we could work in private while considering next steps around open-source/dev for this and other CRL projects. It is possible to re-attach as a fork of the main VuFind project to:

• Be more visible to VuFind community as a fork
• More easily compare branches to main VuFind project branches, and possibly manage community PRs

But this comes with drawbacks:

• Forks are not searchable on Github itself, which is really annoying for folks that may not have dev environment and IDE fully setup yet.
• Forks may not support some features, like releases (needs more verification though)

For any PRs we may work on against the main VuFind project I suspect we'll need to spin up new branches largely independent of our production codebase, which could be done as new forks just as effectively as new branches on our own project. So in this regard I'm leaning toward leaving things detached.

[ryan-jacobs]

Note that the following line in httpd-vufind.conf adds the changelog redirect

  # The changelog location has moved to Github Oct 2022
  RewriteRule ^/changelog(\.txt)* https://github.com/Center-for-Research-Libraries/vufind/releases [R=301,NC,L]

This is a local config not traced in VC.