Re: [dwm] suckless.org host will change soon

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> just wanted to let you know, that the suckless.org host will
> change rather soon. For people with an user account I'd like to
> ask to fetch all HOME-directories now from this host. I can't
> make any garantuees that your home directory data will survive
> the most, because of space limitations of the new gandi host.
>
> The future host is limited to only store the suckless.org
> related source code (Mercurial repositories), and provide a mail
> account to developers. It is not intended to being used as a
> development host or host to store temporary data on -- due to
> its space limitation.
>
> Due to this change I also plan to replace the current diri with
> something new -- I plan to have a public mercurial repository
> which covers the wiki -- this allows me/us to get rid of the
> edit/save stuff in diri and making it just a markdown renderer with
> directory hierarchy support.
>
> I'd like to see virtual webserver realms for each suckless
> project, e.g. dwm.suckless.org, wmii.suckless.org,
> st.suckless.org, dmenu.suckless.org, etc, which are maintained
> using different mercurial repositories for each project.
>
> I send my cancellation notice of the current dedicated server to
> the host provider today, and will backup everything.
>
> I ask the community to not make any changes to the diri markdown
> contents after April 4 23:59 UTC.
>
> I will keep you informed about the ongoing issues. The
> mailinglists are the first target being moved.
>
> Kind regards,
> --
> Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
>
Just out of curiosity what's wrong with the current host? Does it
not have certain features that you feel would enhance
the the suckless projects?
Received on Thu Apr 03 2008 - 14:15:23 UTC