Hello,
There is a larguish problem with common-lisp.net. That problem simply
is that its main admin and otherwise responsible guy (that is, me),
has simply had more than enough of it. I just do not want to do this
any longer. I enjoyed it for a long time but that time has been over
for a while.
I don't think that things are going well with common-lisp.net as they
are. The projects page is abandoned. We are still running debian
woody. This sort of thing happens because I do not have the time, the
expertise, or simply the energy to do better, and because there is no
real infrastructure for sharing responsibilities. A project like this
should have one, but I don't have the energy nor the time of building
one.
Thus, I have decided to stop accepting new projects and begin to think
about a way out of this.
Perhaps someone else might want to take over, which means taking over
completely, including organizing the hosting. I will assist with
whatever help is needed for the transition, which, BTW, is fairly
simple. If you run a modern 2.6 kernel with masquerading capabilities,
common-lisp.net is just a single (resource-heavy) application. But
whoever takes over - be warned. Sooner or later you will have to solve
the infrastructure problem I mentioned above.
(And obviously, there is some selectivity about who might take over.)
If nobody feels like taking over, I will shut down common-lisp.net at
the end December 2005.
I'm sorry.
Regards,
Mario.
Dear Mario
I will take over this project,
please send me details,
best regards
Morten Gulbrandsen
Engineer
-----Original message-----
From: "Mario S. Mommer" mmommer(a)common-lisp.net
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:27:45 -0700
To: Administration list for common-lisp org admin(a)common-lisp.net
Subject: [clo-devel] future of common-lisp.net
>
> Hello,
>
> There is a larguish problem with common-lisp.net. That problem simply
> is that its main admin and otherwise responsible guy (that is, me),
> has simply had more than enough of it. I just do not want to do this
> any longer. I enjoyed it for a long time but that time has been over
> for a while.
>
> I don't think that things are going well with common-lisp.net as they
> are. The projects page is abandoned. We are still running debian
> woody. This sort of thing happens because I do not have the time, the
> expertise, or simply the energy to do better, and because there is no
> real infrastructure for sharing responsibilities. A project like this
> should have one, but I don't have the energy nor the time of building
> one.
>
> Thus, I have decided to stop accepting new projects and begin to think> about a way out of this.
>
> Perhaps someone else might want to take over, which means taking over
> completely, including organizing the hosting. I will assist with
> whatever help is needed for the transition, which, BTW, is fairly
> simple. If you run a modern 2.6 kernel with masquerading capabilities,
> common-lisp.net is just a single (resource-heavy) application. But
> whoever takes over - be warned. Sooner or later you will have to solve
> the infrastructure problem I mentioned above.
>
> (And obviously, there is some selectivity about who might take over.)
>
> If nobody feels like taking over, I will shut down common-lisp.net at
> the end December 2005.
>
> I'm sorry.
>
> Regards,
> Mario.
>
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