Hey Folks, My earlier message was eaten by the SF.net list manager, so here's a re-send.
- .. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Sourceforge Changing its Mailing Lists and SCM Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 21:52:15 -0700 From: bishop <bis...@platypus.bc.ca> To: vtun-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Hey folks, I'm reading that Sourceforge wants to shutter most of the mailing lists (by asking you to agree to spam or so) and other migrations. This is going to give us some changes, I'm sure. The first change is that the mailing lists, as idle as they are, will probably get more idle, and see below. With people unsubscribing for either the spam worry or the low volume, it almost makes sense to close them up. Most of our traffic I'm seeing is in bug reports anyway, and other options are a better bet for this kind of thing. Secondly, SF wants us to move from CVS to SVN or Git; and with the love Git sees today, I'd easily suggest the latter. And I'd recommend moving on to GitHub, even though it's a huge move. But there's a wrinkle: the obvious URL is taken by an anonymous rip of the CVS repo under the official name, and I'm not sure it'd be a good idea to move to GitHub under another name because of the confusion. People click in a hurry, after all. There's a final wrinkle. I've worked two jobs for almost the entirety of the time I've been aware of vtun, like most of you after 2000, and I know I'm stretched thin for important, wonderful reasons that don't help VTun. Is it a good time for someone new to pick up the project who can actually run with it? I'm thinking that with some guidance, the answer to the GitHub issue can be the answer to the other issue, but I have no guarantees that compatibility and safety will be the goals of the day in this new millennium of 'fail fast' coding, nor the keys to enforce any kind of rule like that. I've put this on the dev list because it's more a dev issue than a user issue. We have a month to talk about it, so there's no rush. Let's decide what's happening, because it's important. - bish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ VTun-devel mailing list VTun-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vtun-devel
