@astrojockey@bhilburn can't say I'm fond of gitlab. I use self hosted github at work; public https://t.co/4tTjgvujNm for public things; unfortunately use https://t.co/WpBin5gL9s for a few things; and have a self hosted gitlab at home. Strong preference for github.
@LauraEGrego IMHO, "h*ck no!". While it's easy to parse TSV/CSV in many languages having fixed columns is nasty. JSON is easier to transcode and allows for variable/optional fields.
@LauraEGrego - do you happen to know who's taking care of the UCS satellite database, or what happened to https://t.co/SKHo8MIpGd ? Things seem ... too quiet.
@LauraEGrego Thanks. Could you ask the folks working on that if they might also distribute the database as a more machine-readable format like json? I wrote a tool to do that conversion for me which I'm happy to make available.