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== Shutdown Notice == | == Shutdown Notice == | ||
* A pending shutdown was first announced in Nov 2016<ref>https://mail.gna.org/public/project/2016-11/msg00001.html</ref> | * A notice of pending shutdown / request for takeover was first announced in Nov 2016<ref>https://mail.gna.org/public/project/2016-11/msg00001.html</ref> | ||
* A news item was posted to the front page 2017-01-31 linking to the above. | * A news item about shutdown was posted to the front page 2017-01-31 linking to the above. | ||
* Exact shutdown timeline is currently (2017-02) unclear. | * Exact shutdown timeline is currently (2017-02) unclear. |
Revision as of 13:49, 25 February 2017
Gna! | |
URL | http://www.gna.org |
Status | Closing |
Archiving status | In progress... |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #gnarm (on hackint) |
Gna! is a centralized location where software developers can develop, distribute and maintain free (GPL-compatible) software. It is an instance of the Savane code-hosting platform[1].
Hosted data
As of 2017-02 it claimed to have 1458 hosted projects. (Many are probably abandoned and will not be saved by their project admins before shutdown.)
- Code hosting using CVS, Subversion, and (apparently) Arch
- Ticket tracking
- Up to 4 trackers per project: 'bugs', 'patch', 'task', 'support'
- Project admins (only) can set up XML export of their own ticket text/metadata ("Export" item on tracker admin menu).
- Only option for third parties looks like web scraping.
- There's no supported interface for grabbing issue attachments (such as patches) even for project admins though.
- Attached files are allocated global increasing integer IDs, e.g. file #29845. It's probably possible to scrape all public files by varying 'bugs' and the ID.
- Individual tickets can be private. (Maybe files too?)
- File hosting at http://download.gna.org/
- Project websites on home.gna.org
- e.g. http://home.gna.org/freeciv/
- These are managed via Subversion [3], so grabbing svn by rsync as above should also save website data + history
- Project documentation: FIXME
- Mailing lists using Mailman
- Which means public archives are available in mbox format (albeit with email addresses mangled). e.g. [4]
- Some mailing lists are private.
- Project metadata: groups, users, news etc. Probably only available via web scraping.
- Usage stats at http://stats.gna.org/
Shutdown Notice
- A notice of pending shutdown / request for takeover was first announced in Nov 2016[2]
- A news item about shutdown was posted to the front page 2017-01-31 linking to the above.
- Exact shutdown timeline is currently (2017-02) unclear.