Hello everybody, PCRE and Exim share some infrastructure.
At the beginning of this year (2021) there was some discussion about Exim infrastructure, but I never heard whether anything changed. I have now had a communication from the managers of hummus.csx.cam.ac.uk <http://hummus.cam.ac.uk>, requesting that some other hosting arrangements be made. There might have already been contact directly with the Exim maintainers. Hummus was set up some time ago and is now running an unsupported release of Ubuntu. I'm grateful to my former employer for supporting Exim and PCRE for all this time. (It is nearly 14 years since I retired.) I have not kept up with Exim developments (except to note that it is still going strong, which is gratifying), but I believe that hummus is still supporting the mailing lists and bugzilla, though the source has moved to github. Is that right? PCRE is currently almost entirely hosted on hummus. The source is in a subversion repository, and the mailing list and bugzilla handling is shared with Exim. However, the pcre.org website and pcre.org DNS are separate and generously supported by Andrew Ho. The website has links to the hummus infrastructure. This message is to start a discussion and eventually come to some consensus as to how to move off hummus. These points occur to me: 1. It might be a good idea to separate Exim and PCRE entirely. It's just a historical accident that they share some infrastructure. Unfortunately, the pcre-dev mailing list is pcre-dev@exim.org, though I suppose if we end up with pcre-...@pcre.org, there could be temporary forwarding from @exim.org. On the other hand, if it turns out simpler to keep things as they are, but just on another host, I will not object. 2. I am not getting any younger, so whatever happens to PCRE should be what seems best for long-term maintenance/development by others, rather than keeping any arrangements just to suit what my fingers currently know how to do. 3. Having said that, there are several sites that pull the PCRE sources from the subversion repo automatically on a regular basis, in order to run various tests. It would be less disruptive if they could continue without having to update to something else. There is also documentation that specifies how to get the current sources from the repo and the release tarballs are at (e.g.) https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre2-10.37.tar.gz, which is currently hosted on hummus. Comments, ideas, and suggestions, please! Regards, Philip -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev