<div dir="ltr">Hi Ken<div>Thank you for all the times you helped out. I do not have much spare time at the moment so I can not be of much help maintaining stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>Seems like interest in Squeak has peaked and now is in a downward slope. But just wait another 20 years. It will come back !</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Karl</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Ken Causey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken@kencausey.com" target="_blank">ken@kencausey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I want to respond to some comments made in this thread.<br>
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First I want to admit that my posting on Friday was a bit shrill. I was getting frustrated that this was my third or fourth post on this increasingly problematic issue and little if any action had been taken. Further there seemed a real possibility that over the next few days, possibly over the weekend when I had little time to provide assistance, that the file system for the server which hosts both <a href="http://build.squeak.org" target="_blank">build.squeak.org</a> and <a href="http://squeaksource.com" target="_blank">squeaksource.com</a> would fill up. I have seen greater than 1% per 24 hour increases on that server in the past.<br>
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Thanks to Frank the immediate issue has been addressed and hopefully we have a couple of weeks of breathing time now to consider how best to avoid the issue in the future.<br>
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There has been some discussion regarding my admittedly somewhat extreme comments regarding <a href="http://squeaksource.com" target="_blank">squeaksource.com</a>. One thing that has been mentioned is the idea that 'disk space is cheap'. I think that is easy to say and true in general, but I'm not sure it is true in this specific case. I will admit to possibly over-estimating the 'cost' but... Keep in mind that we have no direct control over the configuration of either <a href="http://box3.squeak.org" target="_blank">box3.squeak.org</a> and <a href="http://box4.squeak.org" target="_blank">box4.squeak.org</a>. These were contributed to us by Gandi.net at the request of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Neither I nor anyone else in our community has any access to modify the server configuration and do things like add disk space. At best we have to go through Software Freedom Conservancy for this. They don't have a lot of time to spare to such issues themselves, further I don't think we should make assumptions that Gandi.net is going to be willing to donate more resources. I'm not sure it is even easy to throw money at the issue given the fact that we are using donated resources. But then, I may just be unreasonably pessimistic about this.<br>
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Someone kindly thanked me and gave the impression that I was the only one that 'cared' enough to monitor the servers for such issues. Thanks but don't assign me too much altruism or think that I'm so interested. The minor amount of daily server checking I do is largely habit for me and is an easy way for me to trigger a few endorphins and feel like I have in some way contributed for the day.<br>
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To be honest my interest in Squeak and the community has been waning for some time and is quite low at this point. Don't assume I'm going to continue to do what little I do indefinitely. Someone else must step up to take responsibility for the Squeak servers.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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