Wiki, bitrot, code and greetings!

[Joel Heikkila]

Hi all,

A few points, questions and so on.

First of all, it's exciting to see some new life to this project in
the last year!

I've noticed the wiki isn't configured still, which is a bit of a
hindrance for starting to document things.

The repository mentioned by Maciej in the Dec 2011 message

> Anyway, the derivative has been made by taking a LMO kernel (i.e. one
> from linux-mips.org) and applying VAX-specific bits from Jan-Benedict's
> repository that used to live at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbglaw/vax-linux.git
>
> and was last updated up to 2.6.23-rc4 according to my most recent daily
> snapshot.  I have no idea if the repository has been restored after the
> kernel.org outage earlier this year.  And I don't really know what the
> status of the kernel port is as Jan-Benedict has been busy and distracted
> with some more important matters recently.  I have cc-ed him in case
> (hope?) he has anything to add.

is still down and presumably will continue to be.  For that matter,
ftp.linux-mips.org with Maciej's RPMs is also down. Perhaps related to
their late Sept. move to a new host?

The only code I can find is on the SourceForge site in the CVS --
untouched since ~2005?

Hosting some repositories on vax-linux.org seems natural.

Speaking of the SourceForge site, does anyone subscribed have write
access to it?  Changing it to a redirect to vax-linux.org would be
useful, as a search on Google for "vax linux" current returns the SF
site and the vax-linux.org site first and second, respectively.  The
two sites look fairly similar so it's confusing for someone searching
those terms to determine which is the right place.  (I had sent a
couple emails and registration requests to the pergamentum mailing
list before I realized this one existed.)

As for me, well, I'm a fan of the VAX but I don't currently have any
hardware, so my contributions will have to be limited to what can be
done under SIMH, as a pair of eyes and hands for poking code, writing
docs and as moral support.

Regards,

  Joel