From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20937 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2001 17:59:58 -0000 Received: from ns2.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (?gu4/gBCKu5ymC261czA1EzdL/epYBrTN?@203.24.36.3) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Nov 2001 17:59:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 9396 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2001 17:59:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by proxy.melb.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Nov 2001 17:59:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 8033 invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2001 17:59:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16240 Received: (qmail 8022 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2001 17:59:48 -0000 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Authentication-Warning: iris.logica.co.uk: Host kiddleo@rambo.logica.co.uk [158.234.33.58] claimed to be yahoo.co.uk Sender: kiddleo@iris.logica.co.uk Message-ID: <3BF00DF8.797F8AF1@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:59:20 +0000 From: Oliver Kiddle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Spiers , zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: issues with sourceforge References: <20011112170508.A23272@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adam Spiers wrote: > > http://fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html > > I haven't looked at this closely enough to decide whether it should > affect us, but I thought I should bring it up just in case. I don't think it is anything to worry about. The article is probably just the FSF exerting pressure on VA, fearing this might be the thin edge of the wedge. The only risk to us is with the tracker which we don't use extensively anyway - a few bugs and 3.0.8 patches. If the services provided by Sourceforge were to rely on commericial software, we could not move to an alternative like Savannah because the alternative would need to use the commercial software. We'd in theory be locked in to Sourceforge unless we converted our data to a free alternative. CVS is not at risk and that is our main use of Sourceforge. The only thing we should do is ensure we have a backup of everything we have on Sourceforge (or anywhere else for that matter). We can download a tarball of the CVS repository. The best way to backup the 3.0.8 patches might actually be to release a 3.0.9/3.0.8a. The Solaris 9 preview still comes with 3.0.8 and there might be places where people are still using 3.0 intentionally but want bug fixes. Oliver _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.messagelabs.com/stats.asp