Author Archives: Marius Mathiesen

Post mortem on yesterday’s downtime

Gitorious 3 has been in the next branch of Gitorious’ mainline repository since last autumn. We started out building a new code browser for Gitorious which would perform better than our previous solution, with server-side syntax highlighting of any programming language out there. At that time we had fallen behind on versions of Ruby on […]

Powow AS acquires Gitorious AS

With Gitorious 3 just about to be released, we’ve got some more news that we’re really excited about. The current Gitorious team has been working full time on Gitorious since January 2011, and over the last two and a half years we’ve managed to improve the quality, stability and feature set in Gitorious – while […]

Gitorious will be upgraded on Monday [completed]

The time has finally come to deploy Gitorious 3.0 to the gitorious.org servers. We are planning to do the upgrade the coming Monday August 26th, starting at 10:00 AM CET. We expect a smooth upgrade process, but gitorious.org may be unavailable for up to two hours while we perform the upgrade. We will post an […]

Maintenance May 21st

The server center where the gitorious.org servers are located is being reorganized. From 1AM CET,  Tuesday May 21st, all gitorious.org services will be down for approximately 2 hours while the servers are relocated. This time is  night time European time, and evening time in the Americas, but we apologize for any inconveniences caused by this […]

Gitorious is featured on the GitMinutes podcast

GitMinutes is a fairly new podcast about Git, with weekly episodes featuring interviews with people doing all kinds of things with Git. This podcast is a great way to keep track of what’s happening in the Git community. I’m in this week’s episode, talking about Gitorious and Git infrastructure. I had a great time chatting […]

An update about Gitorious v3.0

When we merged the Rails 3 branch into next back in January it was our intention that this would become Gitorious 3.0, with few user-visible features. Our plan was to ship 3.1 shortly after, including the new code browser we started working on last year. The upgrade to rails 3 was done mainly to enable […]

Gitorious v2.4.10 has been released

  As a refreshing change from the security-related versions of Gitorious over the last weeks, we’re glad to announce that version 2.4.10 of Gitorious was just released. This release contains fixes several bugs in Gitorious, among these: Fix broken pushes with sync messaging adapter Fix layout for global system message Fix mass-assignment related bugs Include […]

Gitorious went down this morning

Our frontend web server went down at 6:24CET this morning, we will be updating this post as we bring the server back up. Here’s what we know right now: At 6:24 CET a Kernel oops occured. The alarms at our hosting provider went off, and the server was booted.  Since the file system keeping the […]

Gitorious v2.4.7 was just released

This morning we discovered a vulnerability in Gitorious which made us write this advisory on our mailing list and release version 2.4.7 of Gitorious. All users running their own Gitorious servers should upgrade immediately. The steps for upgrading are, as usual: git fetch origin git merge v2.4.7 git submodule update bundle install touch tmp/restart.txt (assuming […]

Gitorious 2.4.5 has been released

Gitorious 2.4.5 has just been released, and all Gitorious servers should be updated immediately. This release brings Gitorious up to Rails version 2.3.15, which solves a severe vulnerability in Ruby on Rails. There’s more information about this vulnerability on the Ruby on Rails security mailing list. To upgrade to this version, follow one of the […]