24 Apr 2002 dmerrill   » (Master)

kir:
It looks like Greg Ferguson is interested in ASPSeek.

dyork:
I'm only surprised nobody asked before, and of course your speculation is pretty much spot-on. Josh holds the domain, and there's been a bit of a falling-out. Here's what happened.

He told us awhile ago that he had been contacted by many different people about buying the domain, and he had met with them about it. And had signed NDAs with them, so he couldn't tell us who they were. He said he was simply interested in the dollar value of the domain because he is a businessman.

It made all (I think all, maybe just most) of us very uncomfortable that this had gone on without any of us knowing about it. We feel that any volunteer only holds such a thing in trust for the group. At one point Joshua said that he owned the domain, which made us even more uncomfortable. So we asked him to transfer the domain to iBiblio, our sponsor, a project of UNC's Library Sciences and Computer Science departments.

He said he doesn't intend to sell it, but he refuses to release the domain, despite the rest of the staff asking him to do it. So we are concerned about the situation, and figure it is better to move to a new domain now rather than have the domain pulled out from beneath us if he decides to make a few bucks off of it.

If nothing happens with the linuxdoc.org domain, it will continue to work forever. I don't know where you got the 5 years from. Our other services, such as mailing lists and cvs, are off the linuxdoc.org domain already, and we hope others will use www.tldp.org from now on.

The whole situation sucks rocks. Big craggy boulders, in fact, along with the proverbially corresponding hard place. And us in between.

Lampadas:
I've a demo up at www.lampadas.org. It is development code. No bug reports, please, I probably know about it already. Comments and suggestions are most welcome, however. Oh, and don't expect too much yet.

Some guys from the French LDP are working on a Python port, which I'm all for. What's online now is the Perl code I did myself. Current work is primarily in i18n, cvs integration, and loading of meta-data into the database from source files that provide it (DocBook, and LinuxDoc to a lesser degree).

It has also been suggested to use Zope, but I am not convinced of the benefit.

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