The Foresight Linux Project shuts down

From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm-XcoBkNhltcHYtjvyW6yDsg-AT-public.gmane.org> To: <foresight-devel-RyYwo1q5J+qJ4JLcm61w83viChZXdy27-AT-public.gmane.org>, <foresight-distro-RyYwo1q5J+qJ4JLcm61w83viChZXdy27-AT-public.gmane.org> Subject: Foresight Linux Project announces its retirement Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 20:32:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20150512003244.GA673@people.danlj.org> Cc: <foresight-council-RyYwo1q5J+qJ4JLcm61w83viChZXdy27-AT-public.gmane.org> Archive-link: Article, Thread

The Foresight Linux Council has determined that there has been insufficient volunteer activity to sustain meaningful new development of Foresight Linux. Faced with the need either to update the project's physical infrastructure or cease operations, we find no compelling reason to update the infrastructure. Therefore, around the end of May, the following will be shut down: * Software repositories (Foresight Linux and legacy rBuilder Online repositories) * JIRA and Confluence servers * Shared development infrastructure * Mailing lists, including these lists The foresightlinux.org domain will remain as an informal "alumni association" for an indefinite amount of time, along with the project IRC channels for as long as they are in use. Volunteers to host read-only copies of the JIRA/Confluence and/or mailing list archives should respond to foresight-devel-RyYwo1q5J+qJ4JLcm61w83viChZXdy27@public.gmane.org in the next few days, while the lists are still operational. Hosting the repositories in read-only mode would be non-trivial; requiring approximately 2.5TB of storage; simply moving the data would be a substantial task. Do not assume that the repository contents will be retained. The Foresight Linux Council would like to extend our thanks to the Software Freedom Conservancy, our corporate home, for their support of Foresight Linux and of software freedom generally. We would also like to thank SAS Institute for providing physical infrastructure and hosting for the past two and a half years, as well as for offering to refresh the infrastructure. This decision to retire Foresight Linux was entirely the council's. To those of us who have been a part of this community for up to ten years, this feels a little like a death. If you wish to celebrate the life of this project, please discuss soon on the foresight-devel-RyYwo1q5J+qJ4JLcm61w83viChZXdy27@public.gmane.org list or on IRC on the freenode.net #foresight-devel channel when and how to do so. On behalf of the Foresight Linux Council, Michael K Johnson