[H-ADMIN] [H-GEN] Planet Humbug - time to die?

[Stephen Thorne]

As a former contributor: I don't mind it dying.

On Thu., 11 Apr. 2019, 7:08 pm John Keogh, <john at keogh.cc> wrote:

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> Or we could promote it's use and encourage people to contribute?
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> ---- On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:08:48 +1000 *Russell Stuart
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> On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 11:48 +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> > I am about to propose the end of Planet Humbug. The reasons follow.
> > If you will be very distressed by this, please reply in the very near
> > future (preferably direct to me) with reasons to keep it alive.
> >
> > The main reason for killing it off  is that nothing new has appeared
> > on it since 21 January 2018 — more than a year — and nobody has
> > noticed or complained.
> >
> > What has happened is that the planet runner utility has been run
> > every 15 minutes and has generated a failure email each time, so that
> > there are now 34,074 such messages (amounting to over 13 million
> > lines) in a mailbox that nobody reads.
> >
> > So, can we kill it off?
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> The root issue is the planet software doesn't work in Debian stretch.
> I'm not sure why - we use the same software Debian uses for it's own
> planet site.
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> The hope was it would spring into life when we moved to the next
> version of Debian. As it happens that is not that far away. If people
> think that is worthwhile we can just disable the cron job for now.
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> However, bugger all people post to blogs now, and the number seems to
> keep dropping. I think killing it is probably the correct course of
> action.
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