[blag-whereto] shutdown/removal of blag vm

[vladimirpunk at radiomexico.com]

I hope somebody else answear. 

Only has passed 2 years since the last blag version, I don't see why
we could think is not going up again, at the forum recently a new user
reported to be comfortable using blag 140k and especting a new one.
There are persons interesed in the project, I proposse give it more
time and make an effort to share the project with more people. I'm
sure more than one would be happy with a new blag distribution (even,
I would say, some part of the dissapointed fedora comunity coud come
with us).
  If it counts, I'm still interested in a new blag version, I'll do
my best to keep it up  again. If there is anybody else interested
please answear, if no I understand if you want to close the site.
     Vladimir 

----- Mensaje original -----
De: Alexandre Oliva 
Para:"Ward Vandewege" 
Cc:
Enviado:Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:16:57 -0300
Asunto:Re: [blag-whereto] shutdown/removal of blag vm

 [adding the blag list]

 Hi, Ward,

 On Sep 17, 2013, Ward Vandewege 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/ [1]
 You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
 Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ [2] FSF Latin America board member
 Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer

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