diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/pkgbase.live.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/pkgbase.live.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..25d5c0f6c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/pkgbase.live.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +=== PkgBase.live + +Links: + +link:https://web.archive.org/web/20221220222828/https://alpha.pkgbase.live/[Website (archive.org)] URL: link:https://web.archive.org/web/20221220222828/https://alpha.pkgbase.live/ + +link:https://codeberg.org/pkgbase/website[Website source] URL: link:https://codeberg.org/pkgbase/website[https://codeberg.org/pkgbase/website] + +Contact: Mina Galić + +PkgBase.live _was_ an unofficial repository for the FreeBSD link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase[PkgBase project]. +As a service, PkgBase.live was inspired by link:https://up.bsd.lv/[up.bsd.live], which provides man:freebsd-update[8] for STABLE and CURRENT branches. + +Hardware for PkgBase was kindly sponsored by a member of the FreeBSD community. +However, as life and projects moved on, they had to decommission the hardware, giving me three months notice. +In that time, my own life was rather turbulent after a recent move to a different country so I haven't been able to find a replacement. + +For the time being, PkgBase.live is dead. + +The website, and with it the link:https://codeberg.org/pkgbase/website/src/branch/main/howto/howdo.md[How Did She Do it?!] is still available in link:https://codeberg.org/pkgbase/website[Git]. +I highly encourage copy-cats. + +But I will also happily accept a new hardware sponsor! + +Please note that I _have_ contacted the FreeBSD project, and they _are_ working on integrating PkgBase into release engineering. +However, they are not yet ready, and they also cannot "simply" take over PkgBase.live because it uses a completely different process.