From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: The ciabot hook code in contrib/ is obsolete - delete it Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:58:23 -0700 Message-ID: <7vr4pg5vn4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20120928024045.E0D6F42F19@snark.thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 03 00:59:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TJBQC-0007oU-7K for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:58:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755029Ab2JBW61 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:58:27 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:36630 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754084Ab2JBW60 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:58:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADA983B9; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:58:25 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=NVWpTz3jOvtaGCxLZN902cVCsYw=; b=WcetJk H7ukCM2mTHj3D7duS5XcCEXz04u0N0wqx7zK0ES4WHGkk18XeWOLfYZZNgOlKsfI z71OGPYwQZ/0X1mnA5FnStAlvhW1HLBeCHFDgvTAhTuO0yMsrROw7q8h5K7Vc8ci LrRdceYTAf6JphWyheBbb4WZ8JpaxMSNAyce0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=be9pLkVFdS9Qsov8vsbY4kAjUeF9qwWw 1eYgdfGydJ8Px+vUQ7RYXPROA7savj7iLXYwXMdte0cJHgi4rF/SdpZwPB/jgsSc stU7tMmburGy0LOWufYhe/gJ7SjoTeO+YEfUw1+7SsWFYuduGb3XtvcG2EYxH9aM vZ8QOgwXf5s= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6856483B8; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:58:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CD8F483B7; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:58:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20120928024045.E0D6F42F19@snark.thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:40:45 -0400 (EDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: ABC60496-0CE4-11E2-8667-BB652E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: esr@thyrsus.com (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 > . > > 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.