Re: Moving xemacs.org?
Steve Youngs writes:
This is the problem. However, and this is key, it does *NOT*
describe
the problem, it *IS* the problem. It's a bunch of excuses, and pretty
weak ones at that, too. XEmacs doesn't need excuses, she needs quick
decisions and actions.
I don't know that the FTP problem does need action of that kind. A
quick look at the FTP virtual host config for XEmacs shows it's badly
broken. Fixing that may or may not fix the passive FTP problem, but
it will fix the max one connection per host issue -- we're supposed to
be configured for 4 (the idea on the main host is to discourage people
from hogging bandwidth when a major distro releases, I guess). There
may be some other bandwidth-limiting factors that will improve, too.
Moving the FTP host is also harder than you make out. In seven
letters: M-I-R-R-O-R-S. It's not just a matter of adjusting the CNAME
for ftp.xemacs.org and everything just works.
Nut out what to do[2].
We need a release, that's what we need. So we need features worth
releasing. We've got some things going on, but nothing that's going
to make Steve "Martin" Yegge catch his breath. I'm not sure how to
deal that.
I don't know where your issue tracker is. Oh, I forgot
www.xemacs.org.
ITS is sitting on a U. Tsukuba server under my control; the database
is in PostgreSQL, the code and config in git. Moving www.xemacs.org
requires a cvs checkout, make, and fixing up DNS. Not hard. And you
missed DNS. That's also at Tux.
The mailing lists seem fine for now. The only "problems"
I've ever
noticed is your over-zealous spam traps. :-)
Heh. I'll be happy to forward any of them to you *before* they hit
the spam traps. I hope you have a gigabit connection to spare.
I appreciate your comments.
Far-better-to-be-in-error-than-to-be-in-doubt-fully y'rs,
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