On 03.03.18 12:43, Chris Albertson wrote: > I'm I the only one having problems sending email to the list server at > Source Forge? There seem to be all kinds of assorted issues at the > Source Forge end. missing DNS entries, server going off line. The > EMC username being "unknown" and some others. perhaps they are > having problems.
On Feb 16th, Bram Moolenaar wrote on the vim-use ML: "The recent (and ongoing) outage of the Vim website on SourceForge shows again that this is not a good place to host Vim." He has since asked for volunteers to expedite the transfer of Vim.org to new hosting. Nothing is forever, and a FOSS site which is floundering at the hands of its third set of owners may not indefinitely remain our best home. ... > What I'm thinking is that with the flight from Sourceforge to Gethun, > source forge might be loosing revenue, laying off staff and > downsizing. I don't know, just a guess. I doubt many new projects > are using Source Forge. How long can they keep the lights on and the > staff paid? Maybe I'm wrong but I follow several open source > projects and I see a clear trend. -- The last rodent off a sinking ship will have the wettest pelt, despite having to run the fastest. So long as our stuff is backed up elsewhere, we won't go down with the ship, I figure. A contingency plan seems the absolute minimum requirement at this stage. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
