GEDA site dead?

[Mark Anderson]

It feels like it's pretty dead. Or dying at least - lepton and pcb-rnd are
filling in the gaps - but the code is old - I am going to endeavor to keep
it building and get lepton going too, but we may have to switch away from
geda-project if DJ doesn't get back to me and/or it doesn't come back.

—Mark
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 3:34 PM Mark Anderson <emer at emer.net> wrote:

> It feels like it's pretty dead. Or dying at least - lepton and pcb-rnd are
> filling in the gaps - but the code is old - I am going to endeavor to keep
> it building and get lepton going too, but we may have to switch away from
> geda-project if DJ doesn't get back to me and/or it doesn't come back.
>
> Thanks,
> —Mark
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> Mark E. Anderson <emer at emer.net>
> Find me on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/markemer/>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 11:02 PM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via
> macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:
>
>> I read their whole mailing list thread.  It looks like
>> geda-project.com/org is not dead or abandoned, but is on a flaky server
>> which keeps crashing and needing restart.  I expect it will come back on
>> line in a few days.  Also:
>>
>> * They are discussing moving the project to gitlab or github for longer
>> term hosting.
>> * There is some talk about maintenance to follow dependencies, such as
>> GTK upgrades.
>> * Some discussion about alternative components with more modern
>> maintenance.
>> * An enthusiastic user base expressed support.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 7:12 PM Mark Anderson <mark at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, I'll reach out to DJ - didn't realize he was still in the mix on
>>> the project - but that mailing list is grim - the project seems to be dead
>>> or dying. Although I did find https://launchpad.net/geda, which appears
>>> to be an official source of code - pcb is there as well. But if
>>> geda-project.com is down for good we may have to make some changes to
>>> other ports. I'll let you know what I find.
>>>
>>> —Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 8:29 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jan 25, 2024, at 20:38, Mark Anderson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've been having trouble getting to http://www.geda-project.com/ -
>>>> anyone else? This doesn't bode well for the project / Portfile. It might be
>>>> time to retire it, or mark it as deprecated.
>>>>
>>>> The site was last archived by archive.org a week ago so maybe it's
>>>> just a temporary outage.
>>>>
>>>> However the mailing list servers are still online and there was a
>>>> thread back in October about maybe shutting down the server. Maybe they did
>>>> that. Here is the start of the thread:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=geda-user/2023/10/09/23:37:22
>>>>
>>>> You could ask on the mailing list, or email the participants of that
>>>> thread directly, to learn more.
>>>>
>>>
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