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[Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:37:40 +0100
Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:

> Am Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:53:14 -0400
> schrieb Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>: 
> 
> > The only thing I want to say is that I have always been free to give
> > access to the server regarding beta+friends' fs level + sudo along with
> > the site itself.
> > 
> > But the truth is that the page:
> > 
> > http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Authors
> > 
> > still has only me, which means everyone has been busy without some time
> > to edit a line on the resource and ask for access (which I offered
> > several times). I don't want to blame anyone, though.
> 
> What we had there was good enough to move to our main site and that was
> the plan. I was on the brink on adding content to the mediawiki thing
> from a wget dump of your site because there was no communication
> anymore, p.ex. after a request from me about getting the site source
> data (already rather late, this January).
> 
> I didn't think about the possibility of getting/having?! access to the
> server when we didn't hear _any_ response from you during your hard
> times.

Thomas, I blame myself for not being available THAT time :)
But the timeframe I mentioned above was Jan 2015 - Nov 2015. Pretty
huge period to take care, right?

> Please let's not start blaming each other for what could have
> happened during that time. The past year was as bad as it could be,
> PR-wise. Now let's get moving, shall we?
> 
> And to comments about rather moving to github/lab: That would plaster
> over the fact that the distro is dead, not avoid it. If we do not
> manage to run a single distro server, we're a virtual distro anyway.
> 
> By all means, we should have mirrors of our repos on those sites. Heck,
> I don't offer any git repo for my software, nor do I use github, but
> folks put up mirrors of my stuff anyway. You cannot prevent it if
> people like your stuff;-) Well, if I vanish suddenly, my server along
> with me, people still can access the github/lab/whatever stuff and the
> software may survive. This is great, but it by no means prompts me to
> move my primary websites and repos over to these platforms.
> 
> A dead project on github is still a dead project.
> 
> 
> Alrighty then,
> 
> Thomas


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Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>

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