Maxima wiki and shell server is down; can someone look into it?

On Thursday 16 October 2008 22:05:35 Robert Dodier wrote:

>>> Yes, I suggest http:://savannah.nongnu.org
>>
>> GNU Savannah also provides Git and Mercurial.
>
> I looked at Savannah a while ago (year or two) and they impose
> some procedural requirements that seemed burdensome.
>
> *IF* we move the project elsewhere, my vote is for common-lisp.net.
>
>> It would be nice to drop CVS eventually.
>
> Agreed, but it's a low-priority item to me.

GNU Savannah requires its projects to be completely free---
I don't think it's a problem for Maxima. But they could ask project to 
fix some formal things with licensing.

As for common-lisp.net, it's a very nice place, but it offers only 
CVS / SVN / darcs / GNU Arch while Git looks more handy and actively 
developed. (SVN / darcs / Arch are marked "upon request", so maybe 
it's possible to request Git there.) Anyway, it's very important to 
consider the software before moving.

>> Could anyone try to recover the wiki DB,
>> if it's not possible to recover the wiki?
>
> I have a snapshot of the wiki pages dated July 2007.
> That's pretty close to up to date; I think there were only a few
> changes since then.
>
> I haven't tried recovering the db.

Could you send me the snapshot?

I think we should remove links to the wiki from maxima.sf.net and
place some urgent stuff (e.g. the official FAQ) as static pages---
at least until another wiki is set up.

Also I'll add links for download (a more usable version of 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933) to the 
maxima.sf.net.

>> Now anyone can register an .org domain (for example).
>> Sticking to the maxima.sf.net is not reliable in case of
>> migrating from the SF, etc.
> I guess I;m not opposed to that. If someone wants to register a
> domain and point it to maxima.sf.net then we can move stuff
> at our leisure. That said, I don't want to be the person
> responsible for the domain name. Also, for what it's worth, I think
> we should avoid the abbreviation "CAS" in the domain name (a
> proposal made in another message); maybe maxima-project.whatever
> is suitable. Just a thought.

OK, I've registered maxima-project.org.

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