[Rd] R-Forge status

[Achim Zeileis]

Kevin,

thanks for reporting this. R-Forge is not down but has been struggling 
with DDoS attacks over the last months.

Part of the reason for the attacks appears to be that the FusionForge 
system that R-Forge is built on is no longer maintained. The IT team at 
the statmath dept at WU Wien have done a good job in avoiding security 
issues so far. But probably R-Forge will reach its end of life in the 
not-too-distant future.

The plans are to preserve the SVN service for the time being (potentially 
also the mailmain mailing lists) but to replace the FusionForge web portal 
with a static HTML page. Thus, all admin/registrations/etc. could not be 
performed from that point onwards and also the build/check facilities 
would cease to work.

The statmath IT team is still work on the details, hence no date has been 
set for the transition. Of course, when the date is set, all R-Forge users 
will be notified with more details and time to transition.

Personally, I have already moved most of my repositories to Codeberg.org 
using R-universe for the development version builds/checks and 
Codeberg.page for project homepages (built with altdoc or pkgdown). I have 
chosen Codeberg as it is a non-profit, community-led platform established 
in Germany and providing Git hosting and other services for promoting free 
software projects. See https://codeberg.org/ for more details.

I'm about to write-up my experiences from the transition in a blog post. 
Some preliminary notes are at https://codeberg.org/zeileis/c403/issues/1 
but these need some more streamlining.

Best wishes,
Achim



On Wed, 16 Sep 2026, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For the last couple of days (at least), I am unable to connect to 
> r-forge.r-project.org.
>
> Is R-Forge down for scheduled maintenance?
> Down for unscheduled repairs?
> Down permanently?
> Any ideas about when it will be back?
>
> Should I start preparing to move the R packages that I maintain and they host 
> over to GitLab?
>
> Thanks for any updates you can provide.
>     Kevin
>
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