Re: Mirror fink.ig42.org going away - sad news

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:08:08 +0200, Schindler Karl-Michael  wrote:


>> > Am 13.06.2018 um 14:09 schrieb [email protected]:
>> > 
>> > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:47:14 +0200
>> > From: Dominik George 
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: [Fink-devel] Mirror fink.ig42.org going away - sad news
>> > 
>> > when working on the servers of Andreas ?gecko? Gockel, I found that
>> > there are references to the Fink project and apparently on of the fink
>> > mirrors is (or was) hosted there. I know that gecko used to work on
>> > fink, but I do not know any details about his involvement and how
>> > important this is for the project.
>> > 
>> > I sadly have to inform you that gecko has passed away on May 16th, 2018
>> > at the age of 36 years. Should any of you have had personal contact with
>> > him, please feel free to contact me in private for any details.
>> > 
>> > As I am managing the recovery of other people's data from geckos servers,
>> > I also have to inform you that any services related to fink that might
>> > be hosted there will go away some time soon.
>> 
>> My sincerest condolences to all, who know Andreas. This is so sad.
>> 
>> I found that nano-cur and gpsbabel use users.ig42.org as source server. If no one else steps up, I feel fine to take over maintainership of all nano packages. 
I set all his packages to maintainer=none, so feel free to claim or work on any you like as usual for an unmaintained package. Just submit an update in which you list yourself in the maintainer field.

dan

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