Good to know -- for the foreseeable future, the only thing I'll be updating
is the contents of ftp.openefs.org, via the upload/download mechanism.

Just curious, but has ANYONE other than me managed to setup an EFS 3
environment and work with any of the branches newer than 2011 or 2012?

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Steven Jenkins <[email protected]>
wrote:

> No worries.  The wheels had already been turning to keep it in the
> same place for another year.  Like I mentioned, we can always link
> over to github from the current openefs.org site.
>
> Steven
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Phillip Moore
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, I take back what I said -- I actually do have a use for at least
> > ftp.openefs.org, since I'm rebuilding all the binary content for RHEL5
> and
> > RHEL6 (not bothering with 7 yet), and uploading it to ftp.openefs.org.
> This
> > makes bootstrapping a new domain trivial, since you don't have to
> recompile
> > all this stuff, which takes WEEKS, literally.
> >
> > So I retract my suggestion that we shut the site down for now.
> >
> > Of course, it looks like nothing happened after that last email, but
> just in
> > case you were putting any effort into this, don't bother.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Phillip Moore <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> This is the first email to the efs-dev mailing list in almost two years,
> >> and in that time, there have been very few commits to the public git
> >> repositories as well.
> >>
> >> After spending the last 2 years working on major improvements to EFS for
> >> my current consulting gig, I have once again re-released all of that
> work to
> >> the OSS world.  However, given the complete mess that is openefs.org,
> and
> >> the lack of a real community, I am no longer going to use that site, and
> >> will in fact encourage anyone interested in my code to ignore it.
> >>
> >> I've published all of my latest work on github.com, and I'm in the
> process
> >> of moving all of the trac tickets to issues on github's system.  I am
> doing
> >> these because I am almost certainly about to start a new gig where we
> will
> >> be using EFS as the foundation for a new global filesystem
> infrastructure,
> >> and I'm not interested in maintaining compatibility with the "official"
> (if
> >> that even makes any sense) openefs.org code base.
> >>
> >> I'm pretty sure BAC is still paying for openefs.org support via
> OSU-OSL,
> >> and as far as I am concerned, that's a waste of money at this point.
> It is
> >> clear by now that BAC has no interest in the code I've written, and I
> long
> >> ago ripped out all the EFS 2 compatibility code anyway.  I am about to
> make
> >> major changes to efsdeploy and the EFS::Perl infrastructure as well, and
> >> these changes will be made with no commitment to backwards
> compatibility,
> >> either.    In fact, the efs-core code base already has major namespace
> >> changes that aren't compatible with the old environment as well.
> >>
> >> I would like to formally suggest that we decommission that site, and
> >> preferably free up the domainname.    If I can't get openefs.org back,
> I'll
> >> just use something else, but right now, there's really no need for a
> >> dedicated website for the product, since it has so few users, and no
> active
> >> community.
> >>
> >> If there is interest in keeping openefs.org up and running, then
> consider
> >> this an announcement that I am forking the code and going my own way.
> >>
> >
> >
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