Re: Migration of the main FreeType site to SourceForge

[Joerg Pommnitz]

As you can see I have a domain of my own. On my web based
configuration interface I can easily redirect request to
a different location. So in theory this is not a problem.
It's even very cheap. A simple so called "Web bussiness card"
which is a domain + 5 pop accounts and a 5MB web site costs
around EUR0,50 a month which is about EUR 6 per year.

Regards
    Joerg

----- Original Message -----
From: David Turner <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:36 AM
Subject: Migration of the main FreeType site to SourceForge


> Hello,
>
>   It seems that the server has been pretty heavily loaded lately, and
>   I have a stack of bills for the last 4 months that have unpleasant
>   "extra" charges for the bandwith. :-(
>
>   I have the option of either paying more each month to go to
substantially
>   more bandwith, or moving the main FreeType site to SourceForge. As you
>   probably understand, I'd really prefer the second solution.
>
>   I'm ready to make the move now, and it shouldn't be difficult. I've
>   been reluctant to take the "full" sourceforge route until now for
reasons
>   of flexibility, and because the latencies (web page downloads, CVS
>   updates & commits, etc..) were absolutely disastrous on this side of
>   the Atlantic when I tested them a bit more than 6 months ago. It seems
>   that the situation has now greatly improved.
>
>   This move would also greatly enhance our capabilities (with web-based
>   mailing archives/subscription, bug trees, etc..)
>
>   We would probably keep the current machine for keeping a CVS archive
>   of the web pages, creating the current snapshots and uploading them
>   automatically to the sourceforge space, etc..
>
>   I would now like to know your opinion on the project. Also, this would
>   mean that the core FreeType developers register themselves on
>   SourceForge to be able to update the CVS tree.. I've already taken
>   the "freetype" id, as you probably guessed :-)
>
>   Also, what to do with the "freetype.org" domain remains to be seen. Can
>   we redirect them easily to the corresponding source forge pages/ftp
>   in particular.. ?
>
>   Hope you'll appreciate the transition..
>
> Cheers,
>
> - David