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["Donald F. Weissgerber Jr." <donw1948@...>]

Received an email today from M. JP Charras .... he advises the server 
is down and the maintainer is on vacation .... look for the site to 
be up at the end of the month.

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, DELIZY Florian 
<florian.delizy@...> wrote:
>
> Given the date, I'd say JP Charras is in vacation :)
> 
> 
> 
> Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I would like to thank those who made sourceforge site possible.
> > >
> > > Is this official download site from now on?
> > >
> > >
> > > Rok
> > >
> >
> > We are trying to get there. Igor is looking for a volunteer that 
would
> > manage the released file sets there. We feel this is necessary 
because:
> >
> > 1) The previous download sites are mysteriously off line, and
> >
> > 2) Since Jean-Pierre is not reachable
> >
> > We are trying to take the initiative to get an alternative 
download site
> > set up for folks.
> >
> > What we need is a volunteer that can build the binaries and put 
them on
> > the website. Jean-Pierre has done this in the past. We have no 
idea
> > if he is still interested in doing this any more, since we cannot 
talk
> > to him.
> >
> > There are really two roles here a) making/compiling/building the
> > release files, and b) putting them on the website.
> >
> > And there are two operating systems that have been supported: x86 
Linux
> > and Windows. So this comprises a matrix of 4 tasks.
> >
> 
> > Two operating systems X two uploads.
> >
> > Ideally Jean-Pierre would simply take the lead on this, but it 
looks
> > like that is not going to happen, so we are looking for 
volunteers.
> >
> > Dick
> >
> >
>