[Mageia-dev] Repository access problem?

Mon Oct 29 15:21:28 CET 2012

2012/10/29 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 29/10/12 13:25 did gyre and gimble:
+>> For me it does not matter so much anyway, mirror mandrivauser.de will
+>> close down at December 2012. :(
+>
+> Oh no! I liked that mirror - waaaay faster than d-c but still regularly
+> updated. I will miss it!
+
+Yes, I liked it too. :)
+I will not make a big fuss about it but the main reason was set when
+we (the German users) decided to let Mageia host our German forum. As
+mandrivauser.de "lost" almost all active people to Mageia (people like
+obgr_seneca, doktor5000, and many more) and Mandriva 2011 did not
+generate new users, due to the bad reception of the release, the forum
+and production came to a screeching halt. Makes no sense to run a
+server with a yearly cost of 500+ Euros in this situation.
+
+We may have come around better if in 2011 we decided to run the German
+Mageia forum on our own server instead of the Mageia server (also for
+other reasons, as it turned out). So I'm part of the cause, made a
+wrong decision then.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+