As mentioned in a previous blog post, gitorious.com is getting some new content. We’re launching the new gitorious.com today, and we’re really excited about it. Gitorious started out as Johan Sørensen scratching his own itch almost four years ago. After steadily getting more users and projects on board, Gitorious grew into a business in 2009 […]
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Another update on the Sony issue
February 24, 2011 – 9:26 am
Yesterday we received a letter from Sony’s attourneys asking us to disable access to a list of projects hosted on gitorious.org. The letter claims that the repositories in question provide circumvention of effective protection mechanisms built into Sony’s PlayStation 3, which would be illegal according to Norwegian law. Furthermore, Gitorious would be subject to direct […]
An update on the Sony DMCA issue
February 3, 2011 – 9:47 am
We have just sent an email to Sony’s legal attournes in reply to their DMCA takedown notice sent to us yesterday: Re: Demand for removal of claimed copyright infringing content from Gitorious.org This is in reply to your notification of United States Copyright Law Violations at Listed URLs, dated February 1st 2011. As we confirmed […]
Update to Gitorious’ terms of service and privacy policy
January 31, 2011 – 12:26 pm
We’re posting this short notice that the Gitorious Terms of Service have been updated today, to reflect the fact that gitorious.org is now run by Gitorious AS, a subsidiary of Shortcut AS. The changes are basically a find-replace of occurences of the Shortcut AS company name to Gitorious AS. The documents that have changed are: […]
DNS update
January 13, 2011 – 6:52 am
Just before Christmas, we had a DNS issue that made Gitorious unavailable for about an hour. In the post about that issue we mentioned that we would be changing our DNS provider, a process that was just completed this morning. DNS is a fairly self-sustaining system, so the change should not affect you in any […]
Gitorious is microblogging!
January 3, 2011 – 9:27 am
First of all: a happy new year to you all! As we mentioned right before Christmas, we have some great plans for 2011, and we look forward to a great year. Our first baby step in the new year is to start using microblogging to keep in touch with you. You’ll find Gitorious on Identi.ca […]
DNS fail
December 23, 2010 – 6:32 pm
A few hours ago, our DNS provider shut down our account, affecting all services on Gitorious.org. We renewed the service, and all services should be operational again. We actually renewed the service (and paid for it) about a month ago, and they messed up. This affected all of us, and we’re really sorry about any […]
Unexpected downtime [closed]
December 14, 2010 – 11:38 am
The gitorious.org server suddenly stopped responding, and is being restarted. We will post updates here once the server is back up. Update 13:12 CET: File system checks are being run on the server, currently at 70% Update 13:28 CET: File systems checks are currently at 90% Update: 13:32 CET: And we’re back up
Scheduled downtime 22 oct starting 13:00 CET [closed]
October 22, 2010 – 9:16 am
We will be adding quite a lot of storage to our servers today, which unfortunately means Gitorious.org will be unavailable for up to 20 minutes today, 22. oct, starting 13:00 CET. This post will be updated as the upgrade starts. Updates: 13:04 CET: Booting the host machines 13:11 CET: No file system checks necessary this […]
Whoops!
October 20, 2010 – 8:11 am
We are having some unexpected downtime, one of the servers is currently running a file system check before it comes back up. It should be back within approximately 15 minutes. Edit 10:43 CET: We’re back up, sorry about the inconvenience!
