nose has moved

nose has moved to google code. The new place to check out the development version and file bugs or feature requests is http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/.

The move was forced by a combination of unfortunate circumstances. First, python hosting has been hit with a wave of trac spam in their free trac/svn service. Second, they decided to handle this wave of spam by shutting down all of the projects that they didn't think were active. They gave no notice nor offered any explanation: the projects were simply 404'd. After waiting half a day for the apparent outage to be solved, and then reading here that they would no longer be accepting new projects until they had cleaned up their server, which could take "weeks or months," I decided that, whether or not I could regain access to nose.python-hosting.com, I would be foolish to continue using a service that might disappear and take my work with it at any time.

The folks at python hosting, once I was able to get an email reply from them, have been very accommodating and kindly turned the project back on so that I could pull down my tickets. I'm grateful to python hosting for hosting nose for over a year, and for the great service that they have provided to the whole python community by offering free hosting to open source projects. I hope this is just a hiccup, and that their service will be operational again soon. I only wish that they had chosen to handle their spam problem in a more open and professional manner. Given how they did handle it, though, I feel that I have no choice but to take my projects elsewhere.

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