[Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge Down 2017-09-26

[David Ladd]

Richard,

I don't know what you are talking about.  I didn't do it! :P

Though I did do a LOT of complaining on Twitter :P lol

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Richard Lorbieski <rlorbieski at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I see David Ladd has moved from breaking OS-9 programs to taking down
> Sourceforge.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of David Ladd
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 4:44 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge Down 2017-09-26
>
> Bill,
>
> Well as far as Sourceforge goes it isn't looking good right now.
>
> Since I had to do a clean install of my Windows 10 PC last week.  I have
> been slowly getting stuff re-installed.
>
> Well I decided to get the 32bit and 64bit versions of MSYS2 installed so I
> could build updated MAME binaries.  Well I started doing the updates to
> MSYS2 and got errors that some files were corrupted.  I went through my
> routers logs to see what files were coming from where and found that the
> files that were failing were coming from Sourceforge.  Well I decided to
> look inside one of the downloaded files before Pacman cleaned up the
> corrupted files.  I saw this message inside the corrupted files:
>
> <noscript>
> We're sorry -- the Sourceforge site is currently in Disaster Recovery
> mode, and currently requires the use of javascript to function.  Please
> check back later.
> </noscript>
>
>
> So I am guessing something really bad happened. :O
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>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Andrew, Source Forge was OK for a long time, then was bought by
> > someone and changed drastically. At the time, GitHub had no Mercurial
> > support and the NitrOS9 makefiles rely heavily on Mercurial. GitHub is
> > now allowing Mercurial (I think) and it could probably be moved. It
> > would be a massive change, but I personally think it would be for the
> > better. Source Forge seems to be headed for "commercial" use only,
> > eventually and something will have to be done.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Pierce
> > "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way
> > to slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net>
> > To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 9:22 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge Down 2017-09-26
> >
> > Thank you for letting us know. I am curious, though, why (or maybe
> > they
> > are?) these aren't up on github?On 09/26/2017 10:33 AM,
> > coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:> Message: 11> Date: Tue, 26 Sep
> > 2017
> > 12:33:09 -0500> From: David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com>> To: CoCoList
> > < coco at maltedmedia.com>> Subject: [Coco] [CoCo] SourceForge Down
> > 2017-09-26> Message-ID:>         <CAHW2jkA5TaYFBRxaMfbEm5KhGkNd
> > o6eNqMVg55ZgCoqgi310zg at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain;
> > charset="UTF-8">> Just a quick notice to anyone that might be trying
> > to acquire Toolshed> Project OR NitrOS-9 Project updates right now it
> > seems that most of> SourceForge's services are down right now.-- Andrew
> L.
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