Re: [gpsd-dev] Pushes to the gpsd repo work again

[Dave Taht]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden> wrote:
> I got Savannah to disable the malfunctioning repo hook earlier today.
> GPSD, and every other git project on Savannah, can push commits afgain
>
> Happens I wrote the broken repo hook.  But the reason it broke was
> that on 24 September the server at cia.vc it was relying on died.  CIA
> notifications - the relay service that shipped our commit notifications
> to #gpsd - is dead.
>
> I've been invisible since the 24th because I've been working on a
> replacement for CIA, called 'irker'.  It's already in pretty wide
> deployment.  Unlike CIA, it's distributed - forges and major
> development sites will each run their own instance of the irker
> daemon, fed by local repo hooks.  Savannah doesn't deploy it  yet,
> but I'm working on that.

that was fixing the problem the long way 'round.


> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
> There's a truism that the road to Hell is often paved with good intentions.
> The corollary is that evil is best known not by its motives but by its
> *methods*.
>



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