[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: ac-archive moved to non-GNU

[Sylvain Beucler]

Ok, I asked the www.gnu.org sysadmin to make a redirection to your
website instead.

Thanks for the compliment :)

-- 
Sylvain

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:05:57PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler writes:
> 
>  > The only thing that really changed is the label "This
>  > project is not part of the GNU Project", which is
>  > apparently more accurate.
> 
> I have thought long and hard about what to do, and I think
> it is best to move the project to my own server entirely.
> More often than not recently, I would have liked to install
> a CGI or needed more control over the CVS repository than
> Savannah allowed me; so I guess this is the time to do it.
> 
> I have set up the archive at:
> 
>   http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/
> 
> The pages at gnu.org effectively link to my site for most of
> the content now.
> 
> So could you please delete the ac-archive project at
> Savannah? It would be great if the URL could be rewritten to
> my site for a while, to allow for a smooth transition. No
> file locations have changed; redirecting
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/foo.m4
> 
> to
> 
>   http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/foo.m4
> 
> will work nicely.
> 
> The ac-archive-maintainers mailing list isn't really
> required anymore either. I'll post a short notice to it to
> let the seven or so people who read it know what is going
> on. If the need for a mailing lists arises again, I'll set
> it up here too.
> 
> In any case, I'd like to use the occasion to say thanks to
> everybody who is involved in running Savannah and the
> other gnu.org sites. It really is a great service to the
> community, and I appreciate all the time and effort you guys
> put into it.
> 
> Take care,