[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In 2001 David Megginson had submitted bug no 433286 "Sun lights plane at
> night".
> to http://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/. His summary was:
> 
> Sun lights plane at night.
> After the sun disappears below the line of sight, it 
> continues to light the plane throughout the night; the 
> part of the plane facing the sun (below the ground) 
> always glows. 
> The fix is to create non-directional ambient light at 
> night, possibly together with a weak light source for 
> the moon. 
> 
> Recently I found similar conditions, when the
> sun is very low at the horizon. Then a rotating aircraft reflects too much
> light
> onto the sky and makes its color changing with each rotation. 
> 
> So it seems the sourceforge bug is still present and the bug tracking system
> appears unmaintained.
> What is the current policy regarding
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear ?

The policy is that we say nice things about sourceforge and we
appreciate the service they provide to the open-source community.

But they really pissed me off one day with some of their policies, so
we vacated and moved all our services to two machines I admin locally
here at my university.  Subsequently, sourceforge relaxed some of
their objectionable policies, but I'm happy taking care of the servers
myself.

Unfortunately, SF doesn't seem to have any mechanism for removing
mailing lists, or projects from their system.  So, you will find
flightgear stuff at SF, but it is completely abandoned, at least as
far as I'm concerned.  I'd be happy to give someone admin rights if
they want to go twiddle over there and be responsible for receiving
all the spam we still get to the abandoned mailing lists.

Really, SF is great, but I'm happier on machines I admin myself.

Regards,

Curt.
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Curtis Olson   IVLab / HumanFIRST Program       FlightGear Project
Twin Cities    [EMAIL PROTECTED]                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Minnesota      http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt   http://www.flightgear.org

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