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Good list, but the most dumbest way was how perl11.org died. The guy who paid for the domain, didn't pay the domain fee anymore without telling anyone else. So we lost it. And then gave up.
FOSS projects should register their domains with providers that allow anyone to pay the fee for a domain, even if they don't own it. then, instead of depending on one person, anyone in the community can pay directly to ensure that the domain is renewed.
I don't recognize any such thing as a "dead open source project". If one project is dead, what makes another one alive? Recent updates? It's working as intended and no updates needed or worth the effort. Even if "working as intended" only means it works on some old platform and no current one. Other users? Why do I or you or anyone care about that? Other users only matters for commercial software where you are sellin…
Tell that to CVEs
They don't. If some code is so old or un-used that you would call it "dead" then there are no cve's on it. No one is using it to discover a vulerability, no one is studying it to find a vulnerability, who writes these supposed cves?
Even if by some miraculous combination of unlikely contrived coincidenses, someone researches, discoveres, writes up, and submits a cve, and the tracking orgs accept and publish it, so what? You just called it "dead" so who does it affect? What does this "cve" matter?
If they do matter because there are users, then it's not "dead".
It's just code that exists that may or may not be useful or interesting to someone sometime for something, or not, like a novel or song or painting.
If it's half-baked code with some problem if it were used exactly as it sits with no further work, so what?
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FOSS projects should register their domains with providers that allow anyone to pay the fee for a domain, even if they don't own it. then, instead of depending on one person, anyone in the community can pay directly to ensure that the domain is renewed.
Good idea. Which providers allow this?
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Good idea. Which providers allow this?
i am afraid i don't have a good answer for now. it used to be gandi, and they may still support it, but since they sold out they massively raised the prices so they can no longer be recommended.