Re: New home for GPE?

Never posted a private e-mail.  check again.

--George

On Friday 18 August 2006 08:31 am, Nils Faerber wrote:
> George France schrieb:
> > I am anyone and I will object.
>
> OK, heard and noted.
> But could you please give reason?
>
> > --George
>
> Cheers
>   nils
>
> PS: I am not very sure what I should think about publically posting
> private mails. If I wanted to post the mail I wrote to you publically I
> would have done it.
> Well, there is nothing in it that is too personal but I think this to be
> a little rude.
>
> > On Thursday 17 August 2006 07:40 am, Nils Faerber wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> As some of you already know, there is a new place on the net for
> >> projects concerned about open source on mobile devices, called "Linux To
> >> Go" or short LTG (see http://www.linuxtogo.org ).
> >>
> >> The special idea behind LTG is that not only the service is free for
> >> everyone (in this area) to use but also that the site/platform itself is
> >> intended to be run by the community. This opens up several interesting
> >> possibilities - but of course also some risks ;)
> >>
> >> Some other already well known projects, like OpenEmbedded and Angstrom,
> >> already use LTG. And since GPE already collaborates with those two (and
> >> others) I think it would be a good idea to stay close with them.
> >>
> >> Long talk short meaning, I would like to propose that we move GPE from
> >> handhelds.org to LTG.
> >>
> >> Florian already tested most of the features we need and so we think it
> >> would be a safe move. We have our own Bugzilla there, mailinglists and
> >> of course CVS. Also a brandnew webserver, Wiki, GForge and everything
> >> that we could possibly need. All together on a quite beefy machine that
> >> should provide a smooth and fluent service.
> >>
> >> So the question is basically if anyone would object to this move?
> >>
> >> If not Florian and me would prepare the actual move, i.e. moving our
> >> data from hh.org to LTG and create a new mailinglist with all currently
> >> subscribed members subscribed to the new list (and unsubscribed from the
> >> old).
> >>
> >> Most services should run at once out of the box.
> >> We would post the new URIs to the new list and try to create forwards as
> >> far as possible (for CVS this will not work but for web).
> >>
> >> So, any objections?
> >> If not (or not many ;) I would propose the next weekend or beginning of
> >> next week for the actual move.
> >>
> >> OK?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>   nils faerber