Re: moving octave.org domain from Wisconsin servers

[Søren Hauberg]

ons, 17 12 2008 kl. 13:50 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> I have a hosting service that can do everything except anonymous ftp.
> For that, we can simply use ftp.gnu.org (for the stable releases,
> which we are already posting there) and alpha.gnu.org (for
> snapshots).  Do you think it will be a problem if ftp.octave.org stops
> working?  The download page on the web site will continue to work as
> we can simply point to ftp.gnu.org.

I don't think this will be much of a problem. We should probably put a
notice of this at the web page, but otherwise I think people should just
adapt to the change.

> To simplify the initial transition (and hopefully not break everything
> all at once) I intend to keep the mailing lists running on the UW
> systems, at least for now.  They may also move in the future.  If they
> do, I think we should move them to savannah which provides lists
> managed with mailman.

Can we also move the archives?

Soren