Hi there, The git.openmoko.org host often goes down for long periods and it's becoming a problem, not to mention annoying. I've been labouring under the impression that the openmoko.org domain was taken over by the community. However, having done some dns and whois queries, it appears that the domain and all of the servers within it are still under the control of FIC. In particular, these hosts:
88.198.93.219 shakti.openmoko.org CNAME downloads.openmoko.org 88.198.93.221 devi.openmoko.org CNAME www.openmoko.org CNAME wiki.openmoko.org 88.198.124.203 sita.openmoko.org CNAME lists.openmoko.org CNAME planet.openmoko.org 88.198.148.21 docs.openmoko.org CNAME svn.openmoko.org 88.198.160.201 git.openmoko.org According to the WHOIS database, the IP ranges that cover theses hosts are all assigned to FIC and each have their admin and technical contact recorded as Sean Moss-Pultz. This situation strikes me as very precarious. FIC has essentially abandoned the openmoko phone hardware/software project. Some of the hosts are unreliable. Meanwhile, they store three things of great importance: 1. Vital technical information about the GTA01 and GTA02 phones. 2. Sources for working openmoko software, including kernel trees. 3. A complete history for essentially the whole endeavour, in the form of mailing list archives (including this list). I think this information should be moved away from FIC-hosted servers. It should be firstly archived and secondly more reliable access needs to be provided for the git and svn servers. I wonder, Sean, whether you are able to provide the raw data stored on these hosts so that the services might be replicated or moved elsewhere? And even whether the openmoko.org domain could be relinquished to the community? There are a number of organisations that spring to mind as able to offer hosting for this kind of effort: the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University¹, The Linux Foundation², The Internet Archive³, ibiblio⁴ (what used to be UNC's SunSITE), etc. I'm curious to know what others in the community think about this? Regards, Bob ¹ http://osuosl.org/about-osuosl ² http://www.linuxfoundation.org/labs ³ http://archive.org/about/about.php ⁴ http://www.ibiblio.org/about/ -- Bob Ham <r...@bash.sh> for (;;) { ++pancakes; }
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