[tei-council] Sourceforge retiring Hosted Apps

[James Cummings]

We have the atom feed so all is backed up. Don't know how to import that into wordpress.com

Jamesc We
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James Cummings, InfoDev, OUCS, University of Oxford (from phone)

David Sewell <dsewell at virginia.edu> wrote:


On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Martin Holmes wrote:

> What volunteers are these? I didn't know anyone except Council did this
> stuff.
>
> Incidentally, judging by the home page, that stage in the release
> process got missed out:
>
> <http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml>
>
> I don't see any news of release 2.1 there. And WordPress on SF seems to
> be down at the moment, as well.

That is effect and cause, I believe.

I have wanted to post news items a couple of times in the recent past but
couldn't get into the Sourceforge WordPress instance. I don't blame SF for
phasing out their hosted apps but it is a nuisance to have them not working at
all prior to the ability to back up contents.


> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 12-07-03 09:12 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>> Yes... but adds another barrier for our volunteers.
>>
>> Jamesc
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>> James Cummings, InfoDev, OUCS, University of Oxford (from phone)
>>
>> Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> There must be a TEI-to-RSS stylesheet somewhere, mustn't there? (Or if
>> there isn't there should be...)
>>
>> On 2012-07-03 16:59, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> If all we're doing with WordPress is creating a newsfeed, couldn't we
>>> just create an RSS document which we update manually? RSS isn't that
>>> complicated.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> On 12-07-03 08:48 AM, James Cummings wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We will need a replacement for wordpress as that is what powers our Newsfeed. Maybe Virginia could be talked into hosting it as part of the website.
>>>>
>>>> Jamesc
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>>>> James Cummings, InfoDev, OUCS, University of Oxford (from phone)
>>>>
>>>> Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I got a warning from SF this morning, which I guess everyone else will
>>>> also have got, about the retirement of Hosted Apps:
>>>>
>>>> <http://sourceforge.net/blog/hosted-apps-retirement/>
>>>>
>>>> For TEI, I guess this means that WordPress will be going away. I don't
>>>> think we use any other Hosted Apps, do we? I see that LimeSurvey,
>>>> MediaWiki and Trac are all enabled in our SF profile, but the only one I
>>>> recall using was WordPress, for making some kind of announcement during
>>>> the process of a release.
>>>>
>>>> Do we still really need this functionality, or can we let all the Hosted
>>>> Apps die a natural death?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
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>>>> Martin Holmes
>>>> University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
>>>> (mholmes at uvic.ca)
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