On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 10:50:53 AM UTC-5, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > The recent (and ongoing) outage of the Vim website on SourceForge shows > again that this is not a good place to host Vim. > > I have an offer to move to osdn.net, which should provide us with a > similar service, but better. It should then also be possible to use > https://www.vim.org. > > If you have positive or negative comments about moving to osdn.net, > let's discuss that. >
Hi Bram, Logan Abbott, president of SourceForge here. I am sincerely sorry about hosting and other services being down this week. We ran into a good deal of unforeseen issues with the new datacenter migration. Most services are restored now, and we're working on getting web hosting up too. I just had the team specifically focus on Vim, so vim.org is back up as is vim.sourceforge.io and we're currently focusing on getting vimdoc.sourceforge.net up as well. With our new setup, we'll also be able to give you https://www.vim.org very shortly on the new datacenter, if you should decide to stay with us, which we really hope you do. We've been improving SourceForge a lot since we took over, including eliminating bundled adware, instituting malware scans for every project, implementing https downloads and project web hosting, & more. We just rolled out a big redesign too and enhanced download stats for project admins. This planned maintenance did not go as well as we'd hoped, but we're confident once our new datacenter is up and running (very soon), our reliability will improve immensely compared to what we were running on beforehand, which we inherited from previous ownership. We plan to continue to improve significantly, so we'd love you to stay with us. Happy to speak with you directly as well. Thanks, Logan > I think this move is the right choice even without the outage. > SourceForge's current owners/leadership has been engaged in behaviors > that are antithetical to the original mission of the service: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies > > - Christian To clarify, we are the new owners of SourceForge that have nothing to do with those previous behaviors, and in fact we eliminated those behaviors as soon as we acquired SourceForge. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-new-management-sourceforge-moves-to-put-badness-in-past/ -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
