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<div class="content" id="news">
<h1>News</h1>
<h2>November 2022: Phasing out Gitea and introducing Fossil SCM</h2>
<p>
Recently it has come to my attention that the owners of Gitea have been making some changes
in their project management, mainly in the form of providing support to businesses. For more
information, view
<a href="https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/">the Gitea blog</a>.
</p>
<p>
Unfortunately, with the way things have gone, the community seems to be weary and distrustful of a
number of moves made by the current owners. My personal concerns are about one of the owners using
Gitea is a lucrative money-making scheme. To me, that's a deal breaker, as I don't know if I can
still trust the project after this. Unfortunate, since I know Gitea is supposed to be a community-run
effort.
</p>
<p>
As such, I have decided to deprecate the Gitea service on Subcon Town. It will no longer be updated,
but will be kept alive for a while until all projects have been migrated. I am additionally looking
into migrating the data to a Gogs installation, continuing a git hosting service that way. Meanwhile,
I have opted to set up Fossil as an alternative. Fossil SCM is a slightly different VCS, similar to git,
but more geared towards tightly nit development groups that work closer together.
</p>
<p>
While fossil may feel a bit more old-fashioned, I think it's also a bit more of a fit with Subcon's
pubnix feel. Users will be able to set up and manage their fossil repositories from their home
directories, in the new "public_fossil" directory. To create new repositories, you can use the
"mkfossil &lt;filename&gt;" command. This is a wrapper around "fossil init" that helps set the
correct file permissions. If done right, your new repo will pop up at <a href="https://museum.subcon.town">museum.subcon.town</a>
from where you'll be able to administrate it.
</p>
<p>
With the introduction of new commands and functions for users, I plan on writing a wiki article
that lists all available functions and how to use them. This should help new users settle in.
Note that the README files in your home directories will be kept updated as well.
</p>
<p>
Hope to see you soon on Subcon Town!
</p>
<h2>October 2022: Finalizing stuff</h2>
<p>
It has been quite a while, but slowly the server has been getting ready to start functioning
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<tr> <td>Gemini:</td> <td><a href="gemini://subcon.town">gemini://subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Gopher:</td> <td><a href="gopher://subcon.town">gopher://subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Gitea:</td> <td><a href="https://vcs.subcon.town">vcs.subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Fossil SCM:</td> <td><a href="https://museum.subcon.town">museum.subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Nextcloud:</td> <td><a href="https://cloud.subcon.town">cloud.subcon.town</a></td> </tr>
</tbody>
</table>