{"id":336,"date":"2015-06-06T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/?p=336"},"modified":"2015-06-06T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T14:33:24","slug":"gitorious-org-is-dead-new-host-is-github-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/336","title":{"rendered":"Gitorious.org is dead, new host is Github.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, the infamous klaatu of <a>GNU World Order<\/a> fame, recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/gitorious.org\" title=\"Gitorious\">Gitorious.org<\/a> to me for a free and GNU friendly git host. I&#8217;ve been using them since, but the business model of (free) code hosting is a difficult problem to solve (just look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/linux\/search?q=Sourceforge&amp;restrict_sr=on\" title=\"Sourceforge scandals on reddit\">recent Sourceforge scandals<\/a>), and I was sad to receive an e-mail from them early this year about their closing down.<\/p>\n<p>Gitorious was bought by Gitlab, a relatively well-known competitor of github.com. I&#8217;ve been discussing the move with Kastian for a while, and after trying out some alternatives, we ended up going for github.com. Here&#8217;s the current repo layout on github:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biamin main repository: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sigg3\/biamin\" title=\"Biamin main repository\">https:\/\/github.com\/sigg3\/biamin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Biamin GPL only repository: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sigg3\/biamin-gpl\" title=\"Biamin GPL only edition\">https:\/\/github.com\/sigg3\/biamin-gpl<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Biamin Legacy repository: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sigg3\/biamin-legacy\" title=\"Biamin LEGACY edition\">https:\/\/github.com\/sigg3\/biamin-legacy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main repo is the development version with current master (releases) and dev (development) branches. It will probably also contain some drafts of text-only documents for the background history, bestiary etc. in the future. The GPL only repository is provided as a courtesy for those who only want to look at\/use\/clone the Biamin &laquo;game engine&raquo; without any Creative Commons licensed artwork. The GPL version follows the official release cycle, with a short delay. The Legacy repo is provided for my own nostalgia, and contains the final version of the original game. It will only receive bugfixes.<\/p>\n<p>The guys at gitorious.org are kind enough to continue hosting the static pages that are there now, and we&#8217;ve added a notice on each repo header to inform about the move to github.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the move to github broke our update script, but that stopped working when we changed the branch models of the main repository. In order to future-safe the update script, I&#8217;ll be looking at using sigg3.net for hosting the release versions, regardless of code\/git host. That&#8217;s all for now, more news to come shortly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, the infamous klaatu of GNU World Order fame, recommended Gitorious.org to me for a free and GNU friendly git host. I&#8217;ve been using them since, but the business model of (free) code hosting is a difficult problem to solve (just look at the recent Sourceforge scandals), and I was sad to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gitorious.org is dead, new host is Github.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,3],"tags":[50,5,52,53,54,51],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigg3.net\/biamin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}