Hi, I started making a few changes to continue with Vim. This is the current status:
- Access to the github organization is possible and Ken and me have been granted admin rights by Brams family, so we can continue with Github. (Thanks @Fokke!) - I invited a few more members to join the Vim organization: Yegappan Lakshmanan, Dominique Pellé, @mattn and @zeertzjq who have been contributed to Vim in the past. Congratulations and welcome guys! ;) - People from the github organization should also have access to huntr.dev (https://huntr.dev/repos/vim/vim/) where security problems are being reported. We'll need to take a look there. - I merged the first 2 commits. As mentioned elsewhere, for now I will try to merge only bug fixes, security related fixes, documentation updates and other clear improvements. For the main source of Vim I'll therefore like to have approval from the other project members before merging anything yet. Please expect some bumps here, we need a bit of time until we know how to properly handle all of this (and it may be subject to change, when we all agree of a better method). - After we have gone through the current backlog, I'd like to get a Vim 9.1 maintenance release ready, until then we should continue with incrementing the minor patch version. After the release, I am thinking about moving to a more modern approach, similar to how Neovim is doing it. But as discussed elsewhere, this may have some consequences for the various subprojects: vim-win32-installer, vim-appimage, macVim, so not sure what will be the best way. - I have access to the OSDN.net project page and am able to edit the vim.org homepage. However for various reasons, we may have to move the Vim homepage elsewhere. More on that further down. - Bram was owner of the all of the mailing lists. I don't know yet how he managed this and how to request access specifically for vim-announce and vim-mac (is this actually still used?) Does anybody have a contact to the googlegroups admins? - The mailing lists vim-dev and vim-use are currently managed by myself, Tony Mechelynk, John Beckett, Ben Schmidt and Ben Fritz (of whom I think the last two are no longer active at least for the Vim project, CC'ing them to see if they are still interested in managing this) - The Vim Domain is managed by @sec (CC'ed). Can you please confirm, you will be taking care of extending the domains (I think this is vim.org, vim8.org, vim9.org and possibly iccf-holland.org)? - I don't have access yet to the main Vim FTP Server. Currently checking with Brams family if they know the credentials. (CC'ed) - I am reaching out to all maintainers of the runtime files, to find out if they have sent anything directly to Bram, which may otherwise be lost. (to be done). Regarding the Vim Homepage, as you may all know, we have had problems with the stability of it for the past months, in particular the connection to the MySQL Server (I am also currently unable to access the vim project page directly, as osdn.net/projects/vim seems to be down for me, but I doubt that this page is actually being used by anybody). It is currently run by OSDN.net as offered by Shuji Sado (former CEO) since 2018. Unfortunately, OSDN.net is apparently now being owned by OSChina and we currently do not have any support by OSDN.net or OSChina teams. @Shuji, thank you for maintaining the Vim Website since 2018 and all the best for the future! I've reached out to OSChina regarding what their plans are, but haven't received any answers yet. Therefore I am also considering to move the Vim homepage to another provider. A good friend of mine, Marc Schöchlin offered to take care of the hosting. The Vim project is very thankful for the kind offer! Please note: This is just a consideration however, nothing has been decided yet. The hosting consists of the following: - PHP Files with access to a MySQL Database. I think it is currently using PHP 5, which seems to have reached end-of-life. - Vims Source in form of a Mercurial repository (which is mirrored from https://hg.256bit.org/vim). Is anybody actually using the mercurial repository (except for Tony ;)) ? - Sourceforge (where the vim homepage was hosted until 2018) recently announced to migrate to php7 in 2 weeks. But I don't know, if this is supported by the Vim homepage (at least https://vim.sourceforge.io/ does not seem to work with PHP 7 when testing using: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Project%20Web%20Services/#upgrading-from-php-5-net-subdomains) - expected traffic: 200-500k/moths page visits - Since I have access to the OSDN Shell Server, I can create a DB dump and move the content elsewhere, so that shouldn't be a problem. Once the hosting has been settled and we have proper contacts, I'll share the account credentials with the team. I can't do it right now, since this requires support from OSDN.net which we are currently missing. @Sec Please be aware that we need to move the Vim Domains if we decide to move the homepage. In the past, I have discussed with Bram to open-source the homepage, so that we will be able to take contributions and be able to keep it up-to-date and maybe have it more modern looking. However Bram did not want that, worrying to leak any sensitive information (or make it more easily discoverable any potential problems). That is certainly a valid point, so don't know how to handle it yet. That should be it for now, i hope I did not forget anything noteworthy. Let me know what you think. Best, Christian -- Was deprimierend ist: Du bist wie alle anderen. Was tröstlich ist: Alle anderen sind wie du. -- Johannes Groß -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. 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