esr@xxxxxxxxxxx (Eric S. Raymond) writes: > The CIA notification server died about two days ago, done in by > a screwup at the cloud service hosting is VM. For various technical > reasons there cannot and will not be any effort to revive it. If you want > the whole sordid tale, read "CIA and the perils of overengineering" at > <http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4540>. > > Accordingly, the contrib/ciabot code is now obsolete and should be removed. > > I have written a replacement service. irker, with a different (and > fundamentally simpler) design. Though I released irker just today, it > already has multiple deployments. A lot of hackers like their IRC > commit notifications and have instantly seized on this option to get > such a service running again - this time as a distributed flock of > lightweight notifier proxy daemons that cannot be taken out by any > single-point failure. > > Interested persons may wish to monitor the freenode #cia channel, > which is morphing into a discussion about coordinating irker > deployment and building various proxy/symbiote/statistics-gathering > services around it. > > I'm shipping a generic repo-hook script that supports both git and > Subversion in the irker distribution, so there won't be any need > for git to carry a special hook. I remain grateful for your previous > cooperation in supporting and distributing the ciabot code. Seeing the above without a signed-off patch and then this on cia.vc We intend to have the CIA.VC Site running soon then bring the service back at a later date! We currently do not have an ETA for the Service but hope to have it functioning soon! I am not sure what the right course of action at this moment. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html