Thomas,
Thank you for sharing this information.
I don't know if it matters who continues to own the domain - as long as
the owner remains willing to work with the open source community, which
seems like it is the case. I would say first priority is to choose a
host. I am also in favor of letting Derek remain as involved as he
chooses to be.
Could it be hosted by kde.org, similar to kmymoney.org? That should
certainly provide some long term stability. Does Derek know (or can he
find out) if GNU (FSF) or MIT might have anything to offer, even if it
only some advice on possible solutions?
Do we know if there are any applications other than GNC and KMM which
use ofxhome.org?
If Google did index ofxhome.org, might they be able to provide some
more recent data than Derek's most recent backup? Has Derek confirmed
that he cannot get any backup from medialayer? The executor of the
owner's estate should know what happened to any physical assets.
Jack
On 2017.05.02 14:20, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
Hi there,
I just received the attached message which explains the current
situation
around ofxhome.org which does not look too promising. KMyMoney uses
this
source to lookup OFX institution information just like GnuCash does.
In case someone has an idea about a possible solution to the problem,
please
report back. I am happy to serve as a proxy between the two projects
(GNC and
KMM).
Regards
Thomas Baumgart
======quoted message from Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com>, subject “Re:
ofxhome.com down”======
+gnucash-devel
Hi,
tl;dr: ofxhome.com is down. I emailed the owner. He found out about
it today. We should decide what to do.
Long version:
I just heard back from him. Here's his response:
I just found out about this today. As you can guess I haven't been
doing much with ofxhome.com recently other than keeping it on life
support.
My host was medialayer and it turns out that its owner has passed
away and the service has shut down. I should have some old backups
available. Unfortunately I may not be able to access anything recent.
I'll continue looking into this.
Does the community have a plan in place? I'm happy to turn over
ofxhome.com to the open source community. Or you can go in a
different direction if you think ofxhome.com should be replaced (you
won't hurt my feelings, it's old!).
So... what WOULD be the plan? I don't think we even considered a
plan.. We could take it over, but we probably want it "hosted" as
opposed to "self-hosted".. I don't know what the platform is/was
that he was using.
Comments? Suggestions?
-derek
On Tue, May 2, 2017 12:41 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> yes, we noticed this last night.
> I've emailed the domain owner to inquire.
> -derek
>
> Paul Faulstich <p...@waltzingcat.com> writes:
>
>> It appears ofxhome.com has been down since about April 24. Not sure
>> when,
>> or if, it will come back online. This breaks GnuCash's ability to
look
>> up
>> bank information. :(
>>
>> psf
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