On Sat, March 4, 2017 1:52 pm, SiegeLord wrote: > So apparently gna.org will be shutting down soonish, see > https://mail.gna.org/public/project/2016-11/msg00001.html for the > announcement. > > Right now we use gna.org for the downloads and the file hosting, while > Github contains the website, repository and the bugs. > > For the downloads, in principle we can attach the release archives to > tags on Github without much issue, but some of the files will have to be > placed elsewhere, perhaps in the website repository. Github has a total > size limit for the repositories, so we might possibly need to upgrade to > their paid offering (I can provide the funds). > > For the mailing list, I think it is a great thing to have, because the > historical context that you can glean from the archives is invaluable > sometimes. Github doesn't provide mailing list hosting, and in fact it's > not at all obvious where to find a place that does. > > There is an option to go back to SourceForge for the mailing list and > perhaps the files (although their mucking around with the files was one > of the reasons we left in the first place). > > Alternatively, it'd be neat to just self-host such things. I am somewhat > annoyed that I'll have to go back to homebrew and other places to update > where to download our archives, it'd be great if it could just be > liballeg.org/files/allegro/...tar.gz in perpetuity. Again, I can provide > the funds but unfortunately none of the expertise, as I've never had to > host a website before, nevermind a mailing list. > > Any opinions on how to proceed? We should decide and implement things > soonish, I think we have 1-2 months before gna closes for good. > > -SL
Mail can be a tough setup to do right to avoid being blocked and so on. I've done it but I don't want to ever do it again... I suggest using SourceForge at least for the mailing list. How much bandwidth do we need for files? I currently have a VPS for $20 (not suggesting to use mine, but one like it) that gets unlimited throughput at 100 Mbit. Not sure that's fast enough though. Next step up is a dedicated box which is around $100/mo and I believe gets 1 Gbit. Regardless of where it's hosted, I can set up a web server on a Debian/Linux box if you need me to. _______________________________________________ Allegro-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/allegro-developers
