[H-GEN] Planet Humbug - time to retire or fix

[Russell Stuart]

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 12:20 +1000, Daniel Devine wrote:
> I would like to see the planet working in the interest of keeping the
> community active.

I don't want to put words in Greg's mouth, but I will anyway.  Greg's
attitude is that either planet should work, or it should be removed.
Not unreasonable, really.  Having planet up there and not working is
just an embarrassment.

Embarrassment or not, it has been like this for months.  I agree with
Greg - someone should fix it.  Remarkably just about anyone could fix
it.  The problem is no one has.

It isn't like it is difficult.  All you have to do is download a copy of
the VM image, figure out why it doesn't work, and post a patch to
general.  (If making a copy of the VM work sounds difficult email me.  I
not have put up an anything remotely resembling good documentation on
the procedure yet.)

You could post the patch to the sysadmin list of course, but there have
been some loud whinges in the past year that the sysadmin list sometimes
functions like a black hole so I would not recommend it.  I suspect that
problem will reduce considerably when the sysadmin list becomes open.

It also pisses me off that planet isn't working, as I used it.  I have
been putting it off fixing myself because I am as slack as the best of
you, but isn't fixed when I get back from my holiday next month, I will
probably fix it myself.