wmaker-data

[Jeremy Sowden]

On 2022-12-15, at 22:07:51 +0000, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> Access to the upstream site for wmaker-data:
>
>   http://www.rolamasao.org/wmaker-data/
>
> has been spotty for some time.  Currently, the host-name doesn't
> actually resolve.  In fact, the NS servers for the domain don't
> resolve either:
>
>   $ dig +trace www.rolamasao.org
>
>   ; <<>> DiG 9.18.8-1-Debian <<>> +trace www.rolamasao.org
>   ;; global options: +cmd
>   .                       94114   IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
>   [...]
>   ;; Received 1137 bytes from 2001:8b0:fb7d:d6d7:e0:4cff:fe83:e514#53(2001:8b0:fb7d:d6d7:e0:4cff:fe83:e514) in 72 ms
>
>   org.                    172800  IN      NS      a0.org.afilias-nst.info.
>   [...]
>   ;; Received 783 bytes from 2001:500:2d::d#53(d.root-servers.net) in 8 ms
>
>   rolamasao.org.          3600    IN      NS      ns3.rolamasao.org.
>   rolamasao.org.          3600    IN      NS      ns.rolamasao.org.
>   rolamasao.org.          3600    IN      DS      37530 14 2 99BAA45F85152978C41658EEDA6A050FBD9AD5349FDB867EA0C76082 73D0BDDF
>   rolamasao.org.          3600    IN      RRSIG   DS 8 2 3600 20221230152222 20221209142222 37749 org. kZUn7q32UFZv90nrux/p6C/FInEcTk7kSSsjfi6XFShlwbe4/nVcvpNI qE9GvOaUiS7QYwoSDmRTM4GI9Jc50ZYbWmAIU6ybzo0iufUv1p6jVRQq Ngmz29FLdFkGnxiBlf4mx0ZBl6TxWVkQk5QGzHFI+j1HejqYHbslIwrz VEA=
>   couldn't get address for 'ns3.rolamasao.org': failure
>   couldn't get address for 'ns.rolamasao.org': failure
>   dig: couldn't get address for 'ns3.rolamasao.org': no more
>
> The package has been maintained by the WM team since I salvaged it
> last year from the previous maintainer, who is also the upstream.  I
> have a copy of the upstream site that I grabbed when I first noticed
> that it was intermittently unavailable:
>
>   https://azazel.net/~azazel/wmaker-data/rolamasao.org/wmaker-data/
>
> On the assumption that the upstream site is in fact defunct, I was
> considering what to do.  I could host it myself, but my inclination
> would be to put it up at windowmaker.org or dockapps.net.  I wanted to
> get a second opinion before proposing it on wmaker-dev.  What do you
> think?

[Apologies for replying to myself.]

Given that the upstream site is basically just some history and
authorship info and a list of tar-balls, a dockapps.net page would be
the obvious candidate.

J.
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