Re: elfutils says thanks and goodbye fedorahosted

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:30:48 +0100
Mark Wielaard <mark(a)klomp.org&gt; wrote:

>  [Apologies for the duplicate. But apparently the mailinglist
> doesn't
>   accept any messages unless you subscribe first. So here it is again.]
>  
>  Dear Fedora Infrastructure Team,
>  
>  Thanks for the many years of hosting the elfutils project.
>  We didn't have any complaints and are grateful for the services
>  provided. But given the sunset of fedorahosted next year we decided
>  to move. Sourceware has offered us hosting and http://elfutils.org/
>  now points to https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ 
...snip...

>  - Is there is a proper way to mark the git repository as
> "closed"
>    and redirect users to the new location? 
Different projects have done this differently: 

* commit a last commit that removes all the files and has a README
* ask us to setup a http/https redirect so it just redirects to the new
  location. (which of course won't apply to git)

...snip...

>  - Again, is there is a proper way to indicate the list is
> "read-only"
>    and people are directed to the new location? 
Should be able to set moderation on all posts and change the
description, etc. 
 
>  We didn't use the trac ticketing system. All bugs were filed
> under
>  the fedora elfutils project in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
>  This wasn't ideal, because it mixed upstream and fedora bugs.
>  But we now have a new dedicated bugzilla component for elfutils on
>  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
>  Any clear upsteam, non-fedora, elfutils bugs will be moved there
>  (by hand). We don't believe any other actions is necessary for those
>  bugs.
>  
>  There weren't many pages under https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/
>  but there are a lot of references to that page. So it now simply
>  contains the text "The elfutils project page moved to
>  https://sourceware.org/elfutils." So people can easily find the
>  new home. The same is true for two other pages that were frequently
>  referenced:
>  https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/wiki/ElflintGNU
>  https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/wiki/DwarfExtensions
>  There is still some old Roadmap pages that haven't been migrated.
>  (But they are years out of date, and need to be rewritten if we
>  add them at our new home.)
>  
>  - It would be good if these pages were kept, or were redirected to
>    the new location for some time. 
We can redirect whatever you like... just file a ticket on which things
you want redirected. 
 
>  All releases at http://fedorahosted.org/releases/e/l/elfutils/
>  have been copied to ftp://sourceware.org/pub/elfutils/
>  also accessible through https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/
>  The last 0.168 release has been added to the old release location
>  but no new releases will be uploaded to fedorahosted.
>  
>  We are keeping the irc.freenode.net channel #elfutils the same.
>  
>  I believe these are all the resources we used from fedorahosted
>  and that we have suitable replacements on sourceware now.
>  
>  Please let us know how we can make the move more convenient for
>  you and our users. 
Sounds great! Thanks for the email and do let us know if there's
anything more we can do for you and your users to make things more
smooth. 

kevin