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

[Ben Fowler]

Seconded.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019, 14:22 Stephen Thorne, <stephen at thorne.id.au> wrote:

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