Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] New maintainership for rdiff-backup

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

I sent this a week ago but have not yet got any response.

Thanks,

Otto


ti 13. elok. 2019 klo 10.08 Otto Kekäläinen (address@hidden) kirjoitti:

> Hello!
>
> The rdiff-backup project has been stale for many years with no new
> releases. Now as Python 2 is about to be removed from Debian (and
> other distros eventually as well) the need to revive the project was
> pressing and there are now a bunch of new people taking it forward.
>
> The new maintainership has been blessed on the mailing list, see
>
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2019-07/threads.html
>
> Related to this, I would like to request access to the page
> http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/
> Alternatively, I would ask you to put a banner there promoting the new
> website location: rdiff-backup.net.
>
> There was also rdiff-backup.org for some years, but the people who
> maintained it stopped it and did not renew the domain, and it is now
> stuck at a registrar for at least a year.
>
> I am CC'ing John so he can verify something about who I am, as surely
> you need to be sure you are not giving access to any random people.
>
> We are still using the mailing list hosted at Savannah. Thanks for it!
>
> The source however has moved to git and website has moved to Github
> pages to be easier to maintain and distribute development among many
> contributors (thanks to the pull request workflow). The SVN or website
> at Savannah are not needed anymore, or could be kept maybe just for
> archival purposes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Otto Kekäläinen
>


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