<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Or we could promote it's use and encourage people to contribute?<br></div><div style="" class="zmail_extra"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:08:48 +1000 <b>Russell Stuart <russell-humbug@stuart.id.au></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div><div>[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]<br></div><div>[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 11:48 +1000, Greg Black wrote:<br></div><div>> I am about to propose the end of Planet Humbug. The reasons follow.<br></div><div>> If you will be very distressed by this, please reply in the very near<br></div><div>> future (preferably direct to me) with reasons to keep it alive.<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> The main reason for killing it off is that nothing new has appeared<br></div><div>> on it since 21 January 2018 — more than a year — and nobody has<br></div><div>> noticed or complained.<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> What has happened is that the planet runner utility has been run<br></div><div>> every 15 minutes and has generated a failure email each time, so that<br></div><div>> there are now 34,074 such messages (amounting to over 13 million<br></div><div>> lines) in a mailbox that nobody reads.<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> So, can we kill it off?<br></div><div><br></div><div>The root issue is the planet software doesn't work in Debian stretch.<br></div><div>I'm not sure why - we use the same software Debian uses for it's own<br></div><div>planet site.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The hope was it would spring into life when we moved to the next<br></div><div>version of Debian. As it happens that is not that far away. If people<br></div><div>think that is worthwhile we can just disable the cron job for now.<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, bugger all people post to blogs now, and the number seems to<br></div><div>keep dropping. I think killing it is probably the correct course of<br></div><div>action.<br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>General mailing list<br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="mailto:General@lists.humbug.org.au">General@lists.humbug.org.au</a><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.humbug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/general">http://lists.humbug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/general</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>