Thanks Christian for putting this together. On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 3:12 AM Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I started making a few changes to continue with Vim. This is the current > status: > > - Access to the github organization is possible and Ken and me have been > granted admin rights by Brams family, so we can continue with Github. > (Thanks @Fokke!) > > - I invited a few more members to join the Vim organization: Yegappan > Lakshmanan, Dominique Pellé, @mattn and @zeertzjq who have been > contributed to Vim in the past. Congratulations and welcome guys! ;) >
Thanks. > > - People from the github organization should also have access to > huntr.dev (https://huntr.dev/repos/vim/vim/) where security problems > are being reported. We'll need to take a look there. > > - I merged the first 2 commits. As mentioned elsewhere, for now I will > try to merge only bug fixes, security related fixes, documentation > updates and other clear improvements. For the main source of Vim I'll > therefore like to have approval from the other project members before > merging anything yet. Please expect some bumps here, we need a bit of > time until we know how to properly handle all of this (and it may be > subject to change, when we all agree of a better method). > Should we look at the outstanding PRs and tag which ones are possible candidates for the 9.1 release? > > - After we have gone through the current backlog, I'd like to get a Vim > 9.1 maintenance release ready, until then we should continue with > incrementing the minor patch version. After the release, I am thinking > about moving to a more modern approach, similar to how Neovim is doing > it. But as discussed elsewhere, this may have some consequences for > Agreed. This is a more scalable approach. Regards, Yegappan > > the various subprojects: vim-win32-installer, vim-appimage, macVim, so > not sure what will be the best way. > > - I have access to the OSDN.net project page and am able to edit the > vim.org homepage. However for various reasons, we may have to move the > Vim homepage elsewhere. More on that further down. > > - Bram was owner of the all of the mailing lists. I don't know yet how > he managed this and how to request access specifically for > vim-announce and vim-mac (is this actually still used?) Does anybody > have a contact to the googlegroups admins? > > - The mailing lists vim-dev and vim-use are currently managed by myself, > Tony Mechelynk, John Beckett, Ben Schmidt and Ben Fritz (of whom I > think the last two are no longer active at least for the Vim project, > CC'ing them to see if they are still interested in managing this) > > - The Vim Domain is managed by @sec (CC'ed). Can you please confirm, you > will be taking care of extending the domains (I think this is vim.org, > vim8.org, vim9.org and possibly iccf-holland.org)? > > - I don't have access yet to the main Vim FTP Server. Currently checking > with Brams family if they know the credentials. (CC'ed) > > - I am reaching out to all maintainers of the runtime files, to find out > if they have sent anything directly to Bram, which may otherwise be > lost. (to be done). > > Regarding the Vim Homepage, as you may all know, we have had problems > with the stability of it for the past months, in particular the > connection to the MySQL Server (I am also currently unable to access the > vim project page directly, as osdn.net/projects/vim seems to be down for > me, but I doubt that this page is actually being used by anybody). It is > currently run by OSDN.net as offered by Shuji Sado (former CEO) since > 2018. Unfortunately, OSDN.net is apparently now being owned by OSChina > and we currently do not have any support by OSDN.net or OSChina teams. > @Shuji, thank you for maintaining the Vim Website since 2018 and all the > best for the future! > > I've reached out to OSChina regarding what their plans are, but haven't > received any answers yet. Therefore I am also considering to move the > Vim homepage to another provider. A good friend of mine, Marc Schöchlin > offered to take care of the hosting. The Vim project is very thankful > for the kind offer! > > Please note: This is just a consideration however, nothing has been > decided yet. > > The hosting consists of the following: > - PHP Files with access to a MySQL Database. I think it is currently > using PHP 5, which seems to have reached end-of-life. > - Vims Source in form of a Mercurial repository (which is mirrored from > https://hg.256bit.org/vim). Is anybody actually using the mercurial > repository (except for Tony ;)) ? > - Sourceforge (where the vim homepage was hosted until 2018) recently > announced to migrate to php7 in 2 weeks. But I don't know, if this is > supported by the Vim homepage (at least https://vim.sourceforge.io/ > does not seem to work with PHP 7 when testing using: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Project%20Web%20Services/#upgrading-from-php-5-net-subdomains) > - expected traffic: 200-500k/moths page visits > - Since I have access to the OSDN Shell Server, I can create a DB dump > and move the content elsewhere, so that shouldn't be a problem. > > Once the hosting has been settled and we have proper contacts, I'll > share the account credentials with the team. I can't do it right now, > since this requires support from OSDN.net which we are currently > missing. > > @Sec Please be aware that we need to move the Vim Domains if we decide > to move the homepage. > > In the past, I have discussed with Bram to open-source the homepage, so > that we will be able to take contributions and be able to keep it > up-to-date and maybe have it more modern looking. However Bram did not > want that, worrying to leak any sensitive information (or make it more > easily discoverable any potential problems). That is certainly a valid > point, so don't know how to handle it yet. > > That should be it for now, i hope I did not forget anything noteworthy. > > Let me know what you think. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAAW7x7%3D6Bci3%2B%2B6aHSipQbYEceYE5LpZqTZt%3DMk9_j6DnRr1zw%40mail.gmail.com.
