Hello, Sorry for this late response. I've been away for a long time. I've not been able to do any development work, or even keep up with emails on the lists. Sorry. I'm actually still using GNU/kFreeBSD in some places, find it very useful, and perceive it has advantages over Debian GNU/Linux. I've no objection to the current infrastructure going away. I'd be more interested in starting fresh with new ideas, such as: if Debian starts to do reproducible building or use cloud providers, we could try to do the same; or when a new live system or installer appears, we could try to port to it. Restarting GNU/kFreeBSD development would be a long-term project, it may take 2-5 years to see a new release. If I do find time to work on this, my first thought would be to archive the most important parts: source code in the "glibc-bsd" Subversion repository, including the kernel and packaging of libraries and utilities. The Debian-provided Subversion infrastructure will likely go away in favour of salsa.debian.org (GitLab), so I'd like to restart the discussion on changing to Git. This could be a nice opportunity to bring in new contributors. GitLab might be friendlier to newcomers, or to those who already tried to contribute but we didn't have a good workflow to integrate their work. I think GNU/kFreeBSD wouldn't survive as ~3 people doing the bulk of the development work. But there is hope, if we find ways of making it easier for other people to work on it, and then if there's enough interest. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven@pyro.eu.org
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