No worries.  The wheels had already been turning to keep it in the
same place for another year.  Like I mentioned, we can always link
over to github from the current openefs.org site.

Steven

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Phillip Moore
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I take back what I said -- I actually do have a use for at least
> ftp.openefs.org, since I'm rebuilding all the binary content for RHEL5 and
> RHEL6 (not bothering with 7 yet), and uploading it to ftp.openefs.org.  This
> makes bootstrapping a new domain trivial, since you don't have to recompile
> all this stuff, which takes WEEKS, literally.
>
> So I retract my suggestion that we shut the site down for now.
>
> Of course, it looks like nothing happened after that last email, but just in
> case you were putting any effort into this, don't bother.
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Phillip Moore <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> This is the first email to the efs-dev mailing list in almost two years,
>> and in that time, there have been very few commits to the public git
>> repositories as well.
>>
>> After spending the last 2 years working on major improvements to EFS for
>> my current consulting gig, I have once again re-released all of that work to
>> the OSS world.  However, given the complete mess that is openefs.org, and
>> the lack of a real community, I am no longer going to use that site, and
>> will in fact encourage anyone interested in my code to ignore it.
>>
>> I've published all of my latest work on github.com, and I'm in the process
>> of moving all of the trac tickets to issues on github's system.  I am doing
>> these because I am almost certainly about to start a new gig where we will
>> be using EFS as the foundation for a new global filesystem infrastructure,
>> and I'm not interested in maintaining compatibility with the "official" (if
>> that even makes any sense) openefs.org code base.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure BAC is still paying for openefs.org support via OSU-OSL,
>> and as far as I am concerned, that's a waste of money at this point.  It is
>> clear by now that BAC has no interest in the code I've written, and I long
>> ago ripped out all the EFS 2 compatibility code anyway.  I am about to make
>> major changes to efsdeploy and the EFS::Perl infrastructure as well, and
>> these changes will be made with no commitment to backwards compatibility,
>> either.    In fact, the efs-core code base already has major namespace
>> changes that aren't compatible with the old environment as well.
>>
>> I would like to formally suggest that we decommission that site, and
>> preferably free up the domainname.    If I can't get openefs.org back, I'll
>> just use something else, but right now, there's really no need for a
>> dedicated website for the product, since it has so few users, and no active
>> community.
>>
>> If there is interest in keeping openefs.org up and running, then consider
>> this an announcement that I am forking the code and going my own way.
>>
>
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