On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > If you have an account with SourceForge, you may have received an > email from them that SourceForge will retire their Hosted Apps on > September 1 this year. You can recognize if something is a Hosted App > by it's URL - if the URL is of the pattern > http://sourceforge.net/apps/appname/projectname/, then it is a Hosted > App and will be retired on September 1. Other functionality provide by > SourceForge (news, bug tracker, source code, etc.) are unaffected and > will remain up after September 1. > [...]
And of course, as soon as I sent that email, I received an email from SourceForge to announce they are moving back the deadline from September 1 to "Q4" (sometime in October-November-December). Also, of the HostedApps they list below, we only have MediaWiki, phpBB, and LimeSurvey activated for FreeDOS at SourceForge. We never did anything with phpBB or LimeSurvey, so I am not planning to do anything with them. Our only Hosted App that will be affected by this is MediaWiki, which is the FreeDOS Wiki. Here's the relevant bit from the updated SourceForge announcement: >>>> Last week we sent you email regarding the retirement of Hosted Apps on the SourceForge website. We've received quite a few questions about this, so we'd like to clarify a few points. *What are Hosted Apps?* SourceForge provides hosting for projects. This hosting includes a variety of features, including download service, listing in our project directory, web hosting service, and a specific application service we call "Hosted Apps". The Hosted Apps service consists of SourceForge-managed instances of: Wordpress, Trac, phpBB, MediaWiki, Piwik, Dotproject, a URL shortener, MantisBT, Gallery, IdeaTorrent, CodeStriker, TaskFreak!, phpWebSite, AN Guestbook, LimeSurvey and Laconica. *What is changing?* We are preparing to discontinue the Hosted Apps service. We had originally slated this to happen on September 1st. We are electing to delay this service shutdown to later in 2012Q4. No other portion of the SourceForge offering is being discontinued. We'll continue hosting your project, providing SCM, downloads, project web, mailing list, ticketing, forum, wiki, and directory listing services as we do today. Only the Hosted Apps portion of our offering is being discontinued. Before shutdown, we are hoping for projects to deploy apps they wish to keep to our project web service, which is not being shut down. To support these migrations, we'll handle integration (package deployment), OpenID (SourceForge accounts for auth), migration docs, and handoff backups for all projects. Work is in-progress on OpenID now (~July). We'll then assist with package deployment and documentation to support migration of these applications to the project web service (~August). Pending completion of all necessary dependencies (~August/September), we intend to provide a month for projects to complete their migrations. We'll keep you posted on the exact timeline. If you have concerns at that point, we'll provide you support in the process. [...] <<<< ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
