[Mageia-dev] Repository access problem?

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/10/29 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
> 'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 29/10/12 13:25 did gyre and gimble:
>> For me it does not matter so much anyway, mirror mandrivauser.de will
>> close down at December 2012. :(
>
> Oh no! I liked that mirror - waaaay faster than d-c but still regularly
> updated. I will miss it!

Yes, I liked it too. :)
I will not make a big fuss about it but the main reason was set when
we (the German users) decided to let Mageia host our German forum. As
mandrivauser.de "lost" almost all active people to Mageia (people like
obgr_seneca, doktor5000, and many more) and Mandriva 2011 did not
generate new users, due to the bad reception of the release, the forum
and production came to a screeching halt. Makes no sense to run a
server with a yearly cost of 500+ Euros in this situation.

We may have come around better if in 2011 we decided to run the German
Mageia forum on our own server instead of the Mageia server (also for
other reasons, as it turned out). So I'm part of the cause, made a
wrong decision then.

-- 
wobo