{"id":4607,"date":"2012-09-27T00:20:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T04:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2012-09-27T01:14:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T05:14:53","slug":"an-emergency-replacement-for-the-cia-service-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"An emergency replacement for the CIA service is coming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours ago I learned that, due to a virtual-server mishap, the cia.vc notification service is <a href=\"http:\/\/shadowm.rewound.net\/blog\/archives\/245-CIA.vc-is-dead.html\">dead<\/a>.  And not coming back.<\/p>\n<p>This was not entirely unexpected.  The CIA codebase was a shambles, the service has been flaky and subject to outages, and the server-site operator who inherited it has for some time been muttering darkly that the end was probably nigh.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting on a lightweight replacement for CIA since late August, holding off shipping until it was clear whether or not a salvage effort on the codebase was going to succeed.  That option is off the table now, so I&#8217;m going into emergency overdrive to get a release out.<\/p>\n<p>The main thing that still needs to be done is for me to finish and test a hook script for git repos, so that when I ship the admins at places like SourceForge and GitHub will be able to drop in both a server instance and the correct hook code.  This script will also be a model for hooks serving other VCSes such as Mercurial, Subversion, and (ugh) CVS.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on that now and expect to ship within 48 hours.  Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours ago I learned that, due to a virtual-server mishap, the cia.vc notification service is dead. And not coming back. This was not entirely unexpected. The CIA codebase was a shambles, the service has been flaky and subject to outages, and the server-site operator who inherited it has for some time been muttering&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4607\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An emergency replacement for the CIA service is coming.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}