Re: [PATCH 0/5] Remove dead linux-mips.org references

From: Lukas Bulwahn
Date: Mon Feb 22 2021 - 12:57:43 EST


On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 6:47 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
>
> > The domain lookup for linux-mips.org fails for quite some time now.
> > Hence, webpages, the patchwork instance and Ralf Baechle's email there is
> > not reachable anymore.
>
> I have been contacted by Ralf a couple of weeks ago and he told me there
> had been a storage failure with the machine running linux-mips.org.
>
> Due to a complex situation with linux-mips.org I do not want to dive the
> details of into here recovery of the site caused some trouble, however I
> was told it had been under way now. So I suggest that we wait a couple of
> weeks yet and see how it goes before going ahead with this series.
>
> As to Ralf personal commitments WRT maintenance duties I can't speak, but
> I have bcc-ed him on his alternative e-mail address with this message in
> case he wants to speak up.
>

Thanks for the update. Maybe we can then rescue some of the valuable
content from linux-mips.org and mirror it somewhere else as well?

The code mentioned some patch by referring to a linux-mips.org
patchwork id, but without the service running, there is no chance to
understand the comment. So, once linux-mips.org is up and running
again, we might want to recover that referred patch and change the
comment to a lore.kernel.org Link (that may stay with us for longer)
or quickly find out if that comment is obsolete by now.

Lukas