On 2013-05-14, at 13:53, "David T. Lewis" lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:02:08PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 2013-05-14, at 11:41, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 May 2013 10:37, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
Seems like as good a time as ever to really do something about squeaksource.com. I'm slacking, sorry. Anyone wants to champion this?
You mean to move the projects (OSProcessPlugin's also spamming us) over to ss3 or SmalltalkHub? Agreed. I'd prefer it if Dave did it (because he's the main committer, not just because I'm lazy), but I'd be willing to do the grunt work, as a semi-last resort.
frank
No, I mean taking over the squeaksource.com server itself.
Is that an option? I'd be all for it.
I think we can, and we should. The folks at the University of Berne have very generously kept it running, but they would be happy if we relieved them of this responsibility.
I have been holding off on moving any of my projects from SqueakSource because I don't know where to put them. I'm not very confident in SmalltalkHub because I have not heard anything to suggest that it will be managed better than the system it replaces. It also does not seem to work behind a corporate firewall with Internet Explorer, not an encouraging sign. SS3 seems to be fine but I don't know if it's intended to be a long term solution.
source.squeak.org is reliable and problem free. If we could have SqueakSource managed in a similar manner it would be great.
For the record: I really do appreciate the service that SqueakSource has provided to the community over the years, including the efforts of the volunteers who have done the support work for it.
Dave
The Squeak Oversight Board has been in contact with Oscar Nierstrasz's group at the Uni of Berne. At the moment Fabrizio Perin is maintaining the server. Our last message exchange was in December 2012. I meant to follow up on that, but I should admit that I don't have the time to actually do it.
Our short-term plan was to simply move the whole thing over to one of our own servers, switch the DNS record, and take it from there.
Would someone have time to make that happen?
- Bert -