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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 Arch
- All subversion repos available via anonymous rsync: rsync://svn.gna.org/svn/ (ref: bottom of every project's svn page e.g. [1]): ~43Gbyte in ~1m files
- Ditto CVS, it looks like: rsync://svn.gna.org/cvs/ : ~8Gbyte in ~200k files
- Arch/tla [2]: rsync://download.gna.org/arch/ : sizes FIXME
- There's also a ViewVC web front-end to browse code.
- 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] suggesting a time frame of six months
- 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.
Detailed quantities
From 2017-02-25 (just counting, files not transferred):
Code hosting
SVN:
$ rsync --bwlimit 100K --stats --dry-run -avHS rsync://svn.gna.org/svn/ stoat/ ... Number of files: 979,943 (reg: 961,966, dir: 17,976, link: 1) Number of created files: 979,943 (reg: 961,966, dir: 17,976, link: 1) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 961,966 Total file size: 43,448,178,925 bytes Total transferred file size: 43,448,178,924 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 12,891,196 File list generation time: 1.371 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 2,961,672 Total bytes received: 18,378,594
CVS:
$ rsync --bwlimit 100K --stats --dry-run -avHS rsync://svn.gna.org/cvs/ stoat/ Number of files: 191,592 (reg: 169,489, dir: 22,101, link: 2) Number of created files: 191,592 (reg: 169,489, dir: 22,101, link: 2) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 169,489 Total file size: 8,032,418,393 bytes Total transferred file size: 8,032,418,367 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 1,912,404 File list generation time: 0.338 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 600,574 Total bytes received: 5,028,112
Arch: FIXME
File hosting
Download area:
$ rsync --bwlimit 100K --stats --dry-run -avHS rsync://download.gna.org/download/ stoat/ Number of files: 129,722 (reg: 117,260, dir: 8,461, link: 4,001) Number of created files: 129,722 (reg: 117,260, dir: 8,461, link: 4,001) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 107,011 Total file size: 124,814,979,354 bytes Total transferred file size: 118,372,817,722 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3,965,140 File list generation time: 0.378 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 1,302,870 Total bytes received: 5,977,965