I'm in favor of option 2 for several reasons: I hate the ads
I hate the ads Having to register again is a small price to pay to gain control over our mailing list and improve the bug tracker. bugzilla seems easy to navigate and I like the advanced search function. John On 2/19/2012 7:23 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: > In the board's original announcement of the rebranding of the > project as LinuxCNC, we mentioned a future renaming of the > SourceForge project, so that our mailing lists would be under the > LinuxCNC name. However, the board has not yet filed this renaming > request with sourceforge.net. Instead, we are soliciting community > input on the future of our mailing list and bug tracking system. > > The board sees two possible options: > * Keep mailing lists and bug trackers hosted at sourceforge but > under a new group name. Advantages of this choice include that > most maintenance is done by sourceforge.net administrators. > Disadvantages include the relatively feature-poor bug tracker and > the ads displayed on all mailing list messages and project pages. > Also, some disruption is expected in the course of the sf.net > project renaming process. It is possible that some information > will be lost during the rename process. > > * Administer our own mailing lists and bug tracker, eventually > closing the sourceforge project. Advantages of this choice > include a more powerful bug tracker (probably bugzilla), ad-free > mailing lists and project pages, and the possibility of an > overlap period of sf.net and self-hosted services. Disadvantages > of this choice include greater administration requirements and > the need for users to create new accounts with the new services. > Furthermore, it is unclear whether it will be possible to migrate > data from the sf.net tracker to a self-hosted tracker, though the > board will investigate this matter further. If we choose this > option, the board accepts the ongoing work of hosting these > services. There are no extra monetary costs anticipated for > self-hosting these services. > > Ideally, this discussion will result in a clear consensus of the > community. If there is not a clear consensus, the board will take > into account community comments and make a decision by vote but not > before March 5. > > Yours, > The LinuxCNC board of directors > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
