gna.org, which hosts much of Freeciv's project infrastructure (including this freeciv-announce mailing list), is expected to shut down soon[1].
The Freeciv project will continue, and we're currently making alternative arrangements. Downloads are already moved, and freeciv.org infrastructure such as the website and metaserver are unaffected, so players should not be affected much. However, we do expect some interruption to our project/development infrastructure used by contributors (code version control, ticket tracking, and mailing lists); migration is in progress as time permits, but there's a good chance that we won't have finished before gna.org goes away. However, all important project data is already backed up, so any hiatus should be temporary. (We are taking this opportunity to migrate version control from Subversion to Git.) Why I'm sending this email: we may not be able to transfer mailing list subscription details, so you might need to re-subscribe to freeciv-announce and other lists. We haven't finalised our new mailing list arrangements yet, so there isn't any action you can take now (I'm only sending this mail now in case I don't get another chance). If we do so before Gna finally shuts down, we'll send one last email to this freeciv-announce list with the details; if you don't hear from us again, check our website <http://www.freeciv.org/>. Thanks to Gna for hosting us trouble-free for nearly 12 years. On behalf of the Freeciv maintainers, Jacob Nevins [1] <https://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2545>; the shutdown timeline isn't entirely clear, but it looks like it might be around the end of April. PS: if you are a veteran Freeciv admin or developer from the CVS era (2005 or before), and are happy to answer some questions, please get in touch with me personally or email freeciv-dev@gna.org; you may be able to help with the quality of the Git history conversion. PPS: if you host or care about another project hosted on Gna, and want help rescuing its data, feel free to contact me personally; I may be able to help. _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
