Not impressed with changes to shell service on sourceforge...

September 19, 2008 at 05:08 PM | categories: python, oldblog | View Comments

So, sourceforge are changing their services. Can't really complain since it is free, but it really is pain. They've switched off shell access, and broken the web servers (our home page there now shows this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/groups/k/ka/kamaelia/cgi-bin/Wiki/wiki", line 24, in ?
import pprint
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/pprint.py", line 39, in ?
from cStringIO import StringIO as _StringIO
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/cStringIO.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
And there's no way (that I can see) to change the website to point at the main website now. We were building/readying a replacement server, but hadn't quite got there, so weren't putting redirects in place yet. Ho hum. I've updated the link on http://sourceforge.net/projects/kamaelia to point at the new server, but given we've moved SVN elsewhere, mailing lists elsewhere and the webserver elsewhere I think this final breakage by SF marks the end of the road for use with sourceforge.

I don't mind the idea that they're changing the maintenance of the website from shell to web - it's their site, their call. But disabling shell, breaking the webserver, BEFORE putting in place the alternative is a real pain. It's kinda sad to leave sourceforge, but breaking subversion, spammed to death mailing lists and now breaking the website is the final straw really. You never know though, I'm sure the aim behind these changes is to improve things, so we may come back at some point if they fix things.


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