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
