Welcome to Gna!
This site is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of Libre Software (Free Software) projects.
Gna! provides Source Code Repositories (CVS, GNU Arch, Subversion), Download Area, Web Pages, Mailing-Lists and Trackers (Bugs, Task, Support Requests, Patches). If you would like to use these facilities to host your project, then go to the Register new project menu entry that is displayed after login.
Most of the documentation is included in the pages themselves, the place where you are most likely to need it. If you want more information, take a look at the Cookbook for howtos or at the In Depth Savane User Guide for issues related to the web interface. If it is not helpful enough to you, fill a Support Request.
If you want to learn more about the Gna! project, its contributors, its policy or its history, please consult the About Gna! page. To be kept in the loop, we suggest that you subscribe to the low traffic list named news.
The hardware of Gna! is provided by FSF France and the bandwidth is offered by Bearstech. The platform is powered by the Savane software.
posted by beuc, Sunday 11/08/2009 at 18:24 CET - 1 reply
We renewed the https certificate with cacert.org.
Note: if you get a warning during login, you may not have this certifier included in your browser, check these ...
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posted by beuc, Thursday 10/15/2009 at 21:29 CEST - 0 replies
We switched from daily, resource-consmuing SVN dumps to read-only raw access to the SVN repositories using rsync, which is lighter and works at any time:
rsync rsync://svn.gna.org/svn/
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posted by beuc, Tuesday 09/22/2009 at 21:19 CEST - 0 replies
We're doing some maintenance on the mail system, it will be down for a couple hours.
The technical goal of the maintenance is to switch from a chroot-based environment to a VServer, and move to a separate partition, so as to have solid ...
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posted by zerodeux, Saturday 09/05/2009 at 04:25 CEST - 0 replies
We had the opportunity to finally run an important disk and RAM upgrade for the main Gna! server and took it. We are sorry we could not plan this better in advance.
Obviously it look longer than planned and funny network problems popped out roughly at the same time. The total downtime ran from 5:50 PM to 4:10 AM (CEST time).
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posted by beuc, Wednesday 08/26/2009 at 22:44 CEST - 0 replies
There was a small downtime today, due to installing a new kernel (which requires a reboot), and a few reconfigurations in the auto-started services (which changed a bit with the newer VServer ...
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posted by yeupou, Friday 08/07/2009 at 12:33 CEST - 1 reply
We're sorry to announce that he main server for Gna! (subversion, cvs, downloads and such) is currently experiencing read error on a disk starting. We're looking into it and hope to fix the issue as soon as ...
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posted by zerodeux, Wednesday 03/04/2009 at 21:07 CET - 0 replies
A failed disk - which was already offline - was changed tonight. While this operation should have been a discrete 10min downtime, a memory module decided to go on strike and prevented the server to boot again at this precise moment. We had to remove the faulty module pair and will live temporarily with less RAM and maybe some performance penalty.
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posted by zerodeux, Tuesday 11/18/2008 at 08:39 CET - 0 replies
The main server for Gna! (subversion, cvs, downloads and such) experienced read error on a disk starting around 17:00 CEST. After a reboot, the situation degraded again to permanent media errors around 0:30 CEST on this tuesday morning.
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posted by zerodeux, Friday 09/19/2008 at 15:17 CEST - 0 replies
We have moved all Gna! services to a new server and a new colocation on Monday sept 15th around 4PM. The service was running again at 7PM, but due to DNS errors on our side (and bad planning, we were in a bit of a hurry), the service was only fully online on Tuesday 16th around 11PM.
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