On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:55:14PM +0200, Lauri Watts wrote: > In order: > (Why?) Because it didn't occur to us way back then to ask KDE for hosting > (the > servers were bursting at the seams, and we had a baby website and an offer of > hosting already) > (docking with the mother ship?) Personally, I think that would be ok, but in > practise it would be the same people maintaining it (or not, as the case may > currently be), and some of those people may not have access to KDE SVN. > (who?)Originally I was the webmaster, then Dave, but pretty much everyone's > had a finger in there at some point, and yes, lofi doing most of the work > lately. I hope that things will change some.
Yeah, the reason for that was primarily because we had several people who were FreeBSD developers & not really KDE developers. It was deemed easier to add people to help maintain KF work in a separate repository than by asking the Powers That Be (tm) at KDE for a commit bit for every one of them. Maybe I'm the only one who thought so and forced that decision on everyone else, but that hardly matters now. :) A few months ago, we were offered colocation with ISC. Brad & I sponsored the server, and it's been there ever since. A few weeks ago we moved the website there. It certainly is capable of hosting whatever KF wants to put on there. In the interest of reducing the maintenance load of handling the mail for freebsd.kde.org (and because Dirk protested, again, when I asked him to change the IP for this hostname), I asked Dirk whether it would be possible to convert the existing f.k.o mailing list archives to something accessible at lists.kde.org. This was to figure out whether it would be reasonable to move the mailing lists to the main kde.org mailserver. As it turns out, kde.org uses MARC for their web archives instead of mailman's builtin archival program like f.k.o uses. Dirk didn't know whether it was possible, and I stopped looking into it then. Along the same lines, I actually wouldn't mind if someone else hosted the repository & website. As far as I'm concerned, my opinion means close to zilch because I don't work on this project anymore. All I do is make feeble attempts to provide resources. And only because this project is my legacy. For obvious reasons, most people who use & work on FreeBSD remember me for K-F. So I try to do what I can, even though I've mostly lost interest in the project and really, in FreeBSD in general. That said, I have a nice collection of machines that would serve well as a new cluster for K-F, but I have not yet gotten the hardware setup finished. It's getting there, though, and perhaps fairly early next week I can start providing computational power again. Full serial console, remote power, dual opteron/athlon MP hardware, 3Mb/768kb DSL, etc., and they can upload to the ISC server to make packages available to others for testing. That is, unless everyone who wants to actually work on KDE 4 for FreeBSD wants to do it another way... As for me personally, I think I wouldn't mind running some KDE 4 snapshots and helping debug Linuxisms (I'm still quite a good C programmer, scripter, etc) etc. but that would probably be the limit of my contributions. Sorry for piping up so late. -- wca
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