Dear All,
all the PPL services (web site, CVS repository, ftp and rsync access, mailing lists, tinderbox, ...) will be moved to new hardware and a new GNU/Linux distribution next Wednesday, January 28, 2009. The services will be taken down at around 11AM UTC and will be brought up again (we hope) a few hours later. I will send another message to the list when this is done: you will be welcome to help testing that everything is in order.
The new hardware is a powerful server donated by AMD, and the (complex!) migration task will be quickly performed in an almost automatic way thanks to the work of Abramo Bagnara, INRIA. We are extremely grateful to AMD (particularly to Christophe Harle and Sebastian Pop) and to INRIA (particularly to Albert Cohen) for the support they are giving to the PPL project. Many thanks are also due to the Department of Mathematics of the University of Parma (particularly to Lucia Alessandrini) for allowing us to put the new server in a suitable room. All the best,
Roberto