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News

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November 2022: Phasing out Gitea and introducing Fossil SCM

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+ 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 + the Gitea blog. +

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+ 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. +

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+ 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. +

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+ 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 <filename>" 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 museum.subcon.town + from where you'll be able to administrate it. +

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+ 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. +

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+ Hope to see you soon on Subcon Town! +

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October 2022: Finalizing stuff

It has been quite a while, but slowly the server has been getting ready to start functioning @@ -86,6 +124,7 @@ Gemini: gemini://subcon.town Gopher: gopher://subcon.town Gitea: vcs.subcon.town + Fossil SCM: museum.subcon.town Nextcloud: cloud.subcon.town