[Gambas-user] [Gambas Bug Tracker] Bug #826: Redirect links to gambasdoc.org/lang to gambaswiki/wiki/lang

[Rob Kudla]

On 10/27/2015 03:03 AM, Christof Thalhofer wrote:
> Thanks. Do you know Robert Kudla?

I know I'm late to the party, but I'm Rob Kudla. I owned the gambasdoc.org
domain name for its entire existence, and hosted the gambas wiki on one of
my company's ancient colocated servers. (I also contributed some seriously
terrible code in the form of the original gb.pcre module.)

Unfortunately, sometime last year our colo servers disappeared from the
net, and after a bunch of fingerpointing, we never did get the servers nor
their disks back. (I have at least a dump of the gambasdoc database
somewhere, but it sounds like a redirect is more in order anyway.) My own
personal domain was also affected, and is still offline a year later.

I'd offered for 3 years in a row to transfer the domain to Benoit or
someone else, but no one ever made it happen. I just noticed the domain had
expired, and thought I'd check in to see if anyone had written me an email
about it at this address, which I don't really check anymore because Gambas
was my last project on Sourceforge and I haven't used it (er, sorry...) for
5 or 6 years now.

It's still in the grace period, so if you or someone else who's been
complaining about the links being broken would like to register it and have
me transfer it to you, you'd be welcome to. But currently I can't afford to
renew it myself, nor provide hosting. I think the grace period goes for
another 4 days, so if you'd like it, you'd better move fast. If I don't
respond to emails here, send to lists at my last name dot org and I'm more
likely to see it (unless your domain is sourceforge.net in which case it'll
be marked as read automatically).

I'd like to thank Benoit, Fabien and the other main contributors for making
Gambas as useful to me as it was for all those years, but I'm pretty much a
web+mobile guy at this point (wrote one desktop app for my wife last year,
but it was for the Raspberry Pi in python... which I gotta say kinda sucks,
in my book. Not the Pi, but python.) I wish there were other IDEs in the
free software world that were as full-featured and nimble as Gambas, but
I've returned to my 25-year emacs habit in their absence.

Rob