[xen-tools-discuss] Website updates?

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:42:57AM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Tue Jun 14, 2011 at 10:59:14 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > >   Since I dropped out of Debian development
> > Completely?
> 
>   Yes.

That's a pity.

> > I refuse to completely delete it. I think it's a very bad habit to
> > "just delete" web pages about stuff you don't want to care about
> > anymore. Somebody else could still be interested in the information
> > there. It's even worse, if you remove open source code from the web.
> 
>   Well I could argue about it, or I could tell you that the particular
>  project in question had zero active users or interest at the time
>  and these days I do not even have an archived repository of the
>  historic code.

'kay. Will update the webpage accordingly.

>   I seem to receive one mail every six months asking for the code
>  which I cannot supply, and which was incomplete even at the time.

That's what I meant...

> > P.S., Steve: You still have the xen-tools hg repo listed on
> > http://repository.steve.org.uk/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/ despite xen-tools
> > has a new repository. Could you remove it or even better, redirect it
> > to http://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools?
> 
>   I'll "hg remove" all files, add a README,

That's fine, too, thanks.

> and try to configure a rewrite.

No problem if that doesn't work. Maybe it even breaks hg clients. IIRC
hg uses HTTP as transport protocol.

> > On the other hand the xen-shell repository vanished despite no one has
> > picked it up yet. Is there still a copy somewhere to where I could let
> > the xen-shell web page point to or which I can tell potential adopters
> > about? There at least were questions about if someone continues to
> > develop xen-shell.
> 
>   That seems to have become non-public/invisible.  I'll unhide it,
>  thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks!

(I do care way more about xen-shell than about argos, so that's the
way more important information for me. I just maintain enough Debian
packages where the upstream website and repos vanished, but they're
still in use and useful...)

		Kind regards, Axel
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