Re: [matplotlib-devel] Github Downloads going away...

2012-12-23 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Damon McDougall
 wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Droettboom  wrote:
>> On 12/16/2012 03:44 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
>>> On 2012/12/16 9:21 AM, Damon McDougall wrote:
 On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Jason Grout
  wrote:
> On 12/14/12 10:55 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>> sourceforge's horror of an interface.
> I'll second that.  Every time I go to Sourceforge, I have to figure out
> how in the world to download what I want (and I have to figure out which
> things *not* to click on too).
 Ok sounds like there is a reasonable amount of resistance towards 
 Sourceforge.

 Eric, when you suggest that NumFocus could 'provide hosting directly',
 do you mean they would have the physical hardware to host the files,
 or are you suggesting they provide the finances to seek hosting
 elsewhere?
>>> I was thinking that perhaps NumFocus would be running a server that
>>> could provide the hosting.  Funding for an external service is also
>>> possible, though, and might make more sense.
>>
>> I'll definitely walk down the hall and talk to my local Numfocus board
>> member ;)
>
> At the 6th Annual Scientific Software Day here at UT Austin, I met and
> spoke to Travis Oliphant regarding funding for hosting our binaries.
> Travis has links with NumFOCUS and was eager to help the matplotlib
> community host binaries should we choose to not go with sourceforge or
> another free option.
>
> I'll need touch base with him again to get specifics, but I thought
> I'd just let everyone here know that that's still an option.
>
> To be honest with you, I'm thinking that if we only want to link to
> binaries from the matplotlib web page then sourceforge really doesn't
> sound like a bad option at all.

Or -- I'll just point this out one more time then leave the dead horse
alone :-) -- you could just register a project called
'matplotlib-downloads' on google code hosting, and have static URLs
that look like e.g.
  https://apa6e.googlecode.com/files/apa6e-v0.3.zip
and let Google foot the bill for reliable high-bandwidth CDN hosting.

-n

--
LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial
Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support
Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services
Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers
http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d
___
Matplotlib-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel


Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib.org website DOWN (again)

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Hobson
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Patrick Marsh wrote:

> The matplotlib.org website is down right now -- at least for me.
>
> Also, over the last 2-3 months or so, I'd guess that about 50% of the time
> I go to the website it's down. Granted, I don't go daily, so I'm guessing
> that part of this is just awesome timing on my part, but my general feeling
> is that this is becoming a more frequent occurrence. Is it just me?
>
>
I can't say for sure. But I think there was a github outage that caused
this. As for the site being down, I'm probably looking at examples or the
gallery 3x a day and haven't noticed it being down once. Who knows?
-p
--
LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial
Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support
Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services
Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers
http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d___
Matplotlib-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel