[blag-whereto] shutdown/removal of blag vm

[Junichirô]

Hello!

I think you may close the website and the forum (I'm tired to clean spammers on it) too! For myself I went back to my first love: Debian.
Sorry, you don't come any more to chat on the IRC or elsewhere.
Jean-Luc (alias Junichirô)



On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:16:57 -0300
Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva at fsfla.org> wrote:

> [adding the blag list]
> 
> Hi, Ward,
> 
> On Sep 17, 2013, Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org> wrote:
> 
> > RMS mentioned that you'd like to shut down the blag VM.
> 
> It's not so much that I'd like to; quite the opposite.  I just told him
> what the status was and asked for help in enlisting volunteers to bring
> it back to life, because it would be very useful for me if BLAG carried
> on, but I can't undertake the effort of maintaining it by myself :-(
> 
> The problem is that I don't think it's responsible to keep an
> unmaintained server connected to the Internet without security updates
> for so long, and since I'm the person who requested the VM and signed up
> as responsible for it, I must live up to the responsibility and do
> something about it.
> 
> BLAG has not had updates or new releases for a couple of years, if not
> more, and I don't know that anyone has been working on such things; I'm
> told by other blag maintainers that by now users and developers have
> moved on to other distros, or to Fedora with the Freed-ora builds of GNU
> Linux-libre, and BLAG is dead :-(
> 
> So, this email should be taken as a call for volunteers who'd like to
> organize and take over its maintainership, so as to stop us from
> bringing the unmaintained server down.
> 
> Another possibility, in case there's still a community using the forum,
> the server, whatever, is to upgrade the server to Fedora 19, minus the
> proprietary server in it, and the Freed-ora kernel.  Of course, it
> wouldn't make sense to undertake that effort if it wouldn't be used.
> 
> 
> > Is there any data on the VM that you would like to preserve?
> 
> Thanks for asking.  I have my own backups of the server, that I'll
> probably keep around for a while, but others might want to copy
> something out too.
> 
> So, this email may also be regarded as a chance for people who want to
> copy stuff out of the server to do so.
> 
> 8~-(
> 
> How about we tentatively schedule the blag server shutdown to the end of
> the month?  Barring signs that the, erhm, patient is not dead, of course
> ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter    http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/
> You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
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> Free Software Evangelist      Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer
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Junichirô <junichiro at zenblagger.org>