Re: [tei-council] ODD question

See also http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-infrastructure-and-service-restorati... On 18/07/15 23:29, Hugh Cayless wrote:

Sourceforge has been down for a couple of days, no ETA (see https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3do9k0/sourceforge_is_down_due_to... https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3do9k0/sourceforge_is_down_due_to... for some interesting commentary). So *now* do we need an exit strategy? Or is it too late?

Hugh

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On Jun 1, 2015, at 20:08 , Lou Burnard wrote:

On 01/06/15 17:37, Hugh Cayless wrote:

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Sourceforge is long in the tooth. I don’t know whether, for example, we can expect any substantial upgrades in the future. Being long in the tooth is not necessarily a bad thing. The TEI for example dates from quite a while back. Also I cannot see any grounds for your assertion that there won't be "substantial upgrades" in the future. I seem to remember quite major changes occurring roughly every two or three years over the last decade. Not all of them to my taste but again the same could be said of the TEI!

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At the very least, I think we need to have an exit strategy for SF. Even the rebuttal on HN points out that it’s a money-loser for its parent company. We don't *need* an exit strategy for SF, any more than we need one for gitHub. We didn't have one for google code, but Mr Google gave us one anyway. No doubt if SF's owners suddenly decide that it's unable to continue for some reason, they too will propose one.

I can't help feeling that this github crusade is a bit of a side show. We do have quite a lot of more important things to be planning, which no-one else is going to help us with or determine.

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