Fwd: Re: ofxhome.com down

[Jack]

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 <derek at 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 <psf at 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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