From 894fe401d17a904f189c9e4f6ad22c41641216e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Frosch Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 23:31:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README --- README => README.md | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) rename README => README.md (69%) diff --git a/README b/README.md similarity index 69% rename from README rename to README.md index bbe82429..834ed791 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,17 @@ Terminator -by Chris Jones and others. +========== + +by Chris Jones and others + +## New home on GitHub + +In April of 2020 we started moving Terminator to GitHub. A new team wanted to continue the work of the original authors. + +Unfortunately we are not able to adopt the Launchpad project, so we could only inform users were possible. + +You can find the project on https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator + +## Description The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals. It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that @@ -26,8 +38,19 @@ For more keyboard shortcuts and also the command line options, please see the manpage "terminator". For configuration options, see the manpage "terminator_config". -Ask questions at: https://answers.launchpad.net/terminator/ -Please report all bugs to https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+filebug +## Contributing + +Any help is welcome with the Terminator project. + +* [Open issues for bugs or enhancements](https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator/issues/new) +* [Join our chat room on gitter.im for general questions](https://gitter.im/gnome-terminator/community) + +You can find old bugs and questions in the launchpad project, but please don't post anything new there. + +* https://answers.launchpad.net/terminator +* https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator + +## Origins Terminator began by shamelessly copying code from the vte-demo.py in the vte widget package, and the gedit terminal plugin (which was fantastically @@ -37,6 +60,8 @@ vte-demo.py was not my code and is copyright its original author. While it does not contain any specific licensing information in it, the VTE package appears to be licenced under LGPL v2. +## Licensing + The gedit terminal plugin is part of the gedit-plugins package, which is licenced under GPL v2 or later.