Re: What happened to the software map?

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 12/08/04 18:43, Kevin Francis wrote:

> I visited the software map for the first time in a long while, and was
> shocked to find it redirecting to freshmeat.net
> <http://freshmeat.net/browse/58/>.
>
> How does that possibly fit with GNOME's goal of being user-friendly? I
> can't imagine people from the linux channel I frequent using that list,
> let alone the average user. It's a scary, long, and complicated list of
> software. Many items there are old, the info is old, or the screenshots
> are old (look at Galeon, the first thing you see when hitting that
> page).
>
> Whats going on with it? Is there no one available to put it up again? Is
> help needed?
The Gnome servers were broken into back in March, and the attacker got 
in via an insecure PHP script.  All PHP was disabled when the system was 
brought back up, pending an audit of the PHP scripts.  No one has done 
an audit of the software map code, so it is not online.

James.

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