Hi ngIRCd'ers!

After becoming more and more dissatisfied with Bugzilla, and without Debian supporting it any more in their current releases, I decided to no longer use my own Bugzilla installation but to move the main ngIRCd Git Repository to GitHub and to use their issue tracker.

I created a new "GitHub organization", which you can find here:

https://github.com/ngircd/

There you'll find our two sub-projects, the daemon itself and our website:

• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd • https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd-web

All old bug reports have been migrated to GitHub, and HTTP redirects are in place, so that you should reach suitable pages even when using old URLs pointing to the now uninstalled Bugzilla installation.

The migration of the existing bug reports has a few drawbacks:

• You must re-subscribe to all bugs that you are interested in, • all GitHub issues are created by "alexbarton" (me), the real author information can only be seen in the description text, • and all issues creation dates are "now", the real dates can be seen in the description as well. • All attachments are … gone. If someone cares I can try to make them available somewhere (yes, I do have backups!). All the currently open bugs didn't have any attachments.

While migration the bug/issue tracker to GitHub, I'm going to use the GitHub repository as the new "master repository" in the future, too. Up to now, I always used my own repository on git://ngircd.barton.de/ngircd.git and mirrored it periodically to GitHub. From now on, I will push all commits directly to GitHub – and mirror it back to my own repository. So basically you don't have to change anything in your setup (I hope!).

The new Git repository URLs are:

• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd.git • https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd-web.git

So what should you do? – Nothing. Keep smiling! ;-)

Everything should work as before, and … • if you were using the bug tracker, have a look at the GitHub issues and (re-)subscribe to all issues that you are interested in; • if you are using Git, update your remotes to point to the new addresses as stated above.

Please let me know when you encounter any broken links or other problems!

I'm going to update the documentation included in the source tree (README, doc/GIT.txt, etc.) in the next few days …

Thanks! Alex