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...
View ArticleGitorious 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...
View ArticlePowow 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...
View ArticlePost 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...
View ArticleFuture of the “Inbox” feature
The “Inbox” feature was added to Gitorious about 4 years ago and it was meant to give our users an easy way of communication. While we know it is a useful feature for many of you, we are also aware...
View ArticleAnnouncing Gitorious 3.1
We’re happy to announce Gitorious 3.1 – a minor upgrade bringing several new features, many improvements and lots of bugfixes. Detailed list of the changes can be found in our CHANGELOG, the highlights...
View ArticleGolang patterns for serving on-demand, generated content
We’re using Go for some parts of the Gitorious project and one of the recently open sourced sub-projects written in Go is git-archive-daemon. It’s a scalable, high-performance HTTP API for serving...
View ArticleSecurity vulnerability in bash
Yesterday it was announced that a critical vulnerability has been discovered in GNU Bash. By exploiting the vulnerability a user can execute arbitrary commands on the server. While these commands may...
View ArticleAnnouncing HTTP(S) pushing support
We’re happy to announce that Gitorious just added support for pushing over HTTP(S) protocol in addition to the existing pushing over SSH. This is especially good news for developers whose...
View ArticleGitorious.org is dead, long live gitorious.org
As you may know, Gitorious was acquired by GitLab about a month ago, and we announced that Gitorious.org would be shutting down at the end of May, 2015. After the announcement we talked to the Archive...
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