{"id":5936,"date":"2014-06-19T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2014-06-19T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T22:19:30","slug":"freecode-submit-is-dead-because-freecode-com-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5936","title":{"rendered":"freecode-submit is dead &#8211; because freecode.com is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> annoying.  The freecode.com release-announcement site stopped accepting updates yesterday.  The site says it shut down due to low traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, I&#8217;ve issued a final archival version of freecode-submit and shipped a version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/shipper\/\">shipper<\/a> that no longer tries to do freecode notifications, issuing a complaint instead.<\/p>\n<p>Had to revise the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/faqs\/hacker-howto.html\">How to Become a Hacker<\/a>, too.  I used to advise newbs to watch that site for projects they might want to join. Can&#8217;t do that any more.<\/p>\n<p>With this site gone, where can people go for a cross-sectional view of what open source is doing?  Bummer&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s annoying. The freecode.com release-announcement site stopped accepting updates yesterday. The site says it shut down due to low traffic. Accordingly, I&#8217;ve issued a final archival version of freecode-submit and shipped a version of shipper that no longer tries to do freecode notifications, issuing a complaint instead. Had to revise the How to Become&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5936\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">freecode-submit is dead &#8211; because freecode.com is<\/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-5936","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\/5936","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=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5938,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}