Subject: Re: Parsons is dying
From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 13:58:31 CST
Hello,
I'm very sorry to hear of this, I was hoping AbiSource could get
better with the time, but it seems economy is taking it's toll on yet
another company at a speeding pace.
My best wishes for you.
As for AbiWord, I've once said that it would be in our interest to AT
LEAST keep an upto date copy of the cvs tree in Savannah.gnu.org.
If that's not the desire of the majority, so be it, but at least we
should mirror the cvs tree of releases to savannah so we don't rely on
one signle tree (plus the developer's personal copies).
Hugs, rms
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 09:50, Eric W. Sink wrote:
>
>
> Greetings Abi developers!
>
> I thought it would be appropriate for me to give everyone
> a heads-up on the condition of parsons, the machine on which
> many AbiWord-related resources are hosted here at SourceGear.
>
> The machine seems to be dying. More specifically, the machine
> is regularly exhibiting hardware problems which we have not
> had time to diagnose. Sometimes it looks like the SCSI card
> is flaky. Sometimes it looks like the disks are going bad.
> Sometimes it works just fine, for a few weeks anyway.
>
> I'll confess that I'm not enthused about the prospect of
> replacing that machine. When parsons is behaving itself,
> the resource drain of playing ISP for AbiWord is below
> my radar. It's obviously not strategic for us, as we are
> completely out of the open source arena now. But it usually
> doesn't consume enough resources for me to worry about it.
>
> AbiWord blips onto my radar when the machine requires attention
> from someone here. Even then, I usually just proceed and
> overlook it.
>
> Now we face the possibility that parsons needs real attention
> and new hardware. At this point, I have to seriously ask
> if there are other alternatives. SourceGear is not as
> financially healthy as it once was. We're losing money,
> and we've had the painful experience of some staff
> reductions. We're not going to be a candidate for "fc.com"
> anytime soon, but the reality is that I must evaluate expenses
> differently when we're in the red than I do when the company
> is operating profitably.
>
> So I am still a fan of the AbiWord project, but my radar
> threshold is moving lower. I need to be asking myself
> if it is appropriate for SourceGear to continue to provide
> ISP services to this project.
>
> Does anyone know where AbiWord's network resources might
> find a new home? The bandwidth usage is not too bad, as
> the actual downloads are hosted elsewhere. We run parsons
> on our T-1 line, co-existing with the rest of SourceGear's
> operations. I do intend to retain ownership of the domain
> names, but I am willing to point them wherever the project
> leaders want them pointed.
>
> I hope that no one sees this as a threat of any kind. I love
> AbiWord, and I want to be as supportive of its success as I
> can responsibly be. When push comes to shove, I certainly have
> no intention of letting parsons go permanently dark or anything
> like that. I just want to let you all know of the possible
> problems here, and ask if any others are able to take SourceGear's
> place as the AbiWord ISP.
>
>
> --
> Eric W. Sink
> eric@sourcegear.com
> http://www.ericsink.com/
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