Not sensitive for me, and I'm glad you brought it up. I don't need to bail out completely, though I'll probably continue to do very little.
I'm willing to host web pages in my domain indefinitely, but for many reasons it would be a good idea to move the primary web pages for xboard to a URL that doesn't have my name in it. The GNU project has web space for us at http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard that we currently are not using, so that seems like a reasonable place to put the project's pages. Stallman sent Arun and me an email for GNU maintainers recently that includes instructions for how to put pages there. I don't think the project needs its own domain name; does anyone else? The chess pages that I have now on tim-mann.org are sadly out of date in many ways, so just copying them over isn't enough. I don't think the project even should start by copying them over, as the current pages have the flavor of being part of my personal web site, not pages for a multi-person project where others are doing 99+% of the work. Maybe there is still some useful stuff there that could be reused, though. Here's a suggestion: gradually change the documentation to point to http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard, after putting a small placeholder page there. The placeholder should have some basic info and a links to places to go for more info, such as http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/, the WinBoard Forum, and probably my old pages. Then when/if someone has the time and motivation, they can replace the placeholder page with a more extensive web site. Also, I can take some time to update my old chess pages (probably mostly by deleting stuff that's outdated). When it makes sense to, I'll replace most of the content with a pointer to the new web site. How does this sound? --Tim On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:09:28 +0200, "h.g. muller" <[email protected]> wrote: > A sensitive question: > > What is the future of the xboard pages on www.tim-mann.org? > > I get the impression that Tim would like to bail out of the project. > So will the www.tim-mann.org website be upgraded to xboard 4.4.0 > once we release it? Will it disappear and would we have to look > for other hosting opportunities? > > One reason to ask the question now is that the tim-mann.org domain > occurs very frequently in most doc files. Should we start working on > slowly editing out the references to this URL? > > H.G. > > -- Tim Mann [email protected] http://tim-mann.org/
