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Easier for other developers to contribute to forge projects.
The
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changes
Code hosting
Move from Magnolia's Bitbucket server to the magnolia-community Github organization.
(Existing Bitbucket projects will be preserved, but we encourage you to migrate them to Github.)
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CI
Move from Magnolia's Jenkins server to Travis CI.
(Existing Jenkins jobs will be removed.) 
Documentation
Continue with pages on Magnolia's wiki: Forge modules
(But we We encourage you to provide basic or complete Readme files on your Github projects as well. We'll look into Wiki macros to import your Readme files onto the wiki.. Use the "Markdown plus" Wiki Macro to display your readme content on the wiki page. See an example)
Artifact hosting
Continue with Magnolia's Nexus.
(But contributors have option to deploy to other repositories, too)
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If you have an existing forge project, but want to move your project to github (yes!), go ahead and submit a new forge request to get access to the magnolia-community organization.
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