On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 03:30:19PM -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
>
> As I understand things, vim.sf.net is minimally maintained. Some
> folks have had problems in getting off the mailing list, for example,
> and there's essentially no administrator willing to take the time to
> do that. My impression, which may well be utterly wrong, is that the
> owners of the machine supporting the site are willing to reboot the
> machine when necessary.
My impression, which is no more official than yours, is that Bram
and others have access to vim.sf.net a.k.a. vim.org . They mostly let
it run automatically, but they do respond to serious problems. The
mailing lists are handled by a different machine. (From the mail
headers, I think it is foobar.math.fu-berlin.de .) This is a really
ancient machine, so forget about upgrading the kernel. AFAIK not even
Bram has access to the mailing list admin functions, and no one who does
is currently paying any attention (or responding to requests).
Once Bram settles in to Google-Zurich (IIRC) and releases vim 7.1
(i.e., however many patches have accumulated since 7.0 was released) I
expect that he will move the mailing lists to a new machine. We may all
have to re-subscribe.
HTH --Benji Fisher
