Just be patient



updated November 8th, see note below

The forum for Void-Linux has been disconnected for about a week and void has not posted anything on their news page. They do have an irc channel at freenode for those who are eager to get in touch about an issue they are having. A month or two ago, the user who had donated the server and was running the forum, not a member of the developers’ team as I understood, had been doing this for a long time and was paying out of his pocket for it and wanted to pass the torch. Without the ability for void to receive or contribute any donations for this purpose the issue was lagging. Void has never been up to this point a formal legal entity. It was proposed that if anyone or a group of the long term supporters and users wanted to take over they should get in touch with him before time run out. The conditions for this transfer seemed to be confusing. I don’t know what ever happened but without any further notice the forum went down.

I am speculating the team is looking for a solution and a way to get a copy of the existing archive and transfer it somewhere. Don’t get paranoid in the meanwhile that the whole project has gone down, such rumors do get started and travel far, the project is still full of life and vitality. Both glibc and musl repositories get updated and flush a whole bunch of new packages many times a day in this past week. So whatever is going on is just related to the transfer of the forum from one person to another. Be patient. It is much better than distros whose forum is still active but no new packages have been coming through.

I only hope the content of the previous forum can be moved to any other format than discourse, it was the part of void I hated. Discourse with all of its geeky automation seems to be designed for arguments and misbehaving designed in. Something simplistic, with no scripts running necessary, should be a better choice for the character of the disto. Hopefully this will complete the circle or resettling void since last year’s termination of voidlinux.eu and transfer to voidlinux.org.

We wish the best

Update: Just hours after our post, it may have been the links to void’s news page that alerted them to issue a public notice, void made the following announcement. The date of November 05 though is false, there was nothing there yesterday and up until the time we published this, as we kept checking for news ourselves and many hits to our site were results of google searches with the terms “void forum”:

November 05, 2018

The forum is down.

The forum has been generously operated by @gregf and is not a managed Void resource, so we have no information as to when or if it will return. We have reached out to gregf to determine what has happened and possible courses of action, and will provide updates as information becomes available.

In the meantime, for Void Linux support, please explore the following channels:

IRC We have #voidlinux and #xbps on freenode #voidlinux is for general support #xbps is for development discussion

The Wiki The wiki is currently in maintenence mode, help us replace it at the docs repo

StackExchange Ask questions on unix.stackexchange.com Tag your questions with void-linux

Reddit r/voidlinux Also not managed/moderated by the Void team, but very likely to be up!

