Dear Mario
I will take over this project,
please send me details,
best regards
Morten Gulbrandsen Engineer
-----Original message----- From: "Mario S. Mommer" mmommer@common-lisp.net Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:27:45 -0700 To: Administration list for common-lisp org admin@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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