So yeah - I've gotten a few emails/IMs/Tweets/passenger pigeons about this today. Apparently RIAForge.org is showing something different:
So just as a reminder, I stepped down from managing RIAForge last year ("Status of RIAForge"). The ColdFusion team was aware that the domain was expiring and was in process of moving the ownership (I didn't own the domain name though) to themselves and I guess it just didn't get done.
So... yeah. Not sure what to tell you. Obviously the server is probably still there. I have no idea if they plan on trying to get the domain back or selecting a new one. If you want your files, please reach out to @coldfusion on Twitter. And of course, if you are still doing open source in ColdFusion, you should just use GitHub. RIAForge was built way back when GitHub was still young and not as well known as it is today. I'm real proud of what RIAForge provided, but it's time to move on. (In more ways than one, but I'll bite my tongue.)
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When you say "I'll bite my tongue", does it taste like node? :D
Just a bit. ;)
I applaud you Ray for this post as well as the CF 2016 post. I can only trust people who are transparent and honest and these two posts are basically your letter of presentation.
Thank you for this.
You are most welcome. :)
Unfortunately there is a lot of useful code on it that has been lost to everyone unless someone can pay for the domain. :-(
Surely Adobe has taken care of this by now, right?
I wish! Still giving me the same view as your screenshot. :-(
I want to care, but if Adobe and the ColdFusion team can't be bothered, then why should I?
God that sounds cruel, but it just pisses me off. It takes 10 minutes to renew DNS - to transfer it. They couldn't do that.
Hell, they could have put up another domain name and pointed it to RIAForge just temporarily.
Nope.
*sigh*
If I register it, I don't 'save' the content, do I?
The content is on a server at Edgeweb, most likely 100% safe and sound. It's just the DNS. They could buy
bullcrap.adobe.com
and point to it right away.
The site is back online. I let them know that the domain was still renewable yesterday but after that it would be lost. Charlie got a hold of the right person and was able to get the domain renewed in time.
Amazing! Thank you!!!
Thanks Don!