On Sunday 04 March 2018 22:58:09 John Kasunich wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018, at 10:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 March 2018 20:23:01 Chris Albertson wrote:
> > > I'm not contributing to EMC development so I have no say in how to
> > > do it.  But I'd suggest a move to Github.  Not just because they
> > > are stable but because Git offers a better way to work
> > >
> > > On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:36 AM, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > > On 4 March 2018 at 18:00, Peter Blodow <p.blo...@dreki.de> wrote:
> > > >> This mail has been sent to sourceforge this morning and was
> > > >> returned without reason.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, Sourceforge is having problems.
> >
> > This, I'm afraid, is symptomatic of a site thats well on the way of
> > going broke. We should get used to the idea of doing it ourselves,
> > before the whole code base disappears. They have already lost the
> > Nitros9 code base and can't seem to find it, its an hg repo, and its
> > been months since I've been able to refresh my copy with an hg pull.
> >
> > Contingency plans are in order.
>
> Just to clarify a few things:
>
> The code base is absolutely not at risk.
>
> The LinuxCNC code was moved off of Sourceforge years ago.  It was on a
> privately hosted git server for a while, but was moved to github
> several months ago.
>
> The LinuxCNC website is also NOT on Sourceforge.  I'm not exactly sure
> where it is hosted now, but it hasn't been at SF for years.
>
> The only thing we use Sourceforge for now is the mailing lists.

That is very reassuring to hear John K.  Thanks for the clarification.

-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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