On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:46:16 PM EST Michal Novotny wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> maybe you know that around April 2018, there was an announcement that
> libravatar service (a service for serving user avatars) is shutting
> down:
> https://blog.libravatar.org/posts/Libravatar.org_is_shutting_down_on_2018-0
> 9-01/
 
> This raised a big wave of interest in the service and in keeping it
> alive because libravatar was here for quite a long time and used by
> many parties including Pagure, Mozilla Firefox, or Linux kernel. A
> group of people formed with the goal to port libravatar to a new
> platform and new servers and
> https://blog.libravatar.org/posts/Libravatar.org_is_not_going_away/
> was published. Then the work on saving libravatar had begun...
> 
> And now, it is finally done! Yesterday at 17pm UTC, Francois Marier
> flipped the DNS switch to point www.libravatar.org to the new server
> and completely new, modern implementation placed in our Fedora cloud!
> \o/ Check it out here: www.libravatar.org
> 
> I think it's quite a nice message of how well people in Open Source
> and Free Software can cooperate and how they can make something
> significant happen. I would like to say thank you to them and in
> particular to:
> 
> Oliver Falk who rewrote libravatar from scratch
> (https://git.linux-kernel.at/oliver/ivatar)
> 
> Francois Marier who wrote and maintained the original libravatar and
> who was helping us all the time with the migration
> 
> Tristan Le Guern who was testing the new implementation and provided
> great insights
> 
> Niklas Poslovski who themed new libravatar
> 
> Lars Kruse who lead our IRC meetings and setup our @libravatar.org
> email addresses
> 
> Me who setup the new servers in Fedora Infra Cloud and did some
> testing of the new implementation too
> 
> I would also like to thank the Fedora community and the Infra team for
> providing us with the space in the cloud for the new service.
> 
> So yeah, if your avatars are not served properly, you know whom to
> blame :). You can get in touch with us on #libravatar Freenode
> channel. Through https://git.linux-kernel.at/oliver/ivatar bugtracker
> or by writing to libravatar-f...@lists.launchpad.net mailing list.
> 
> Enjoy
> clime
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Awesome! I'm glad we won't be losing libravatar, and I couldn't be happier 
that it's supported by Fedora's Infra.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com>
Splentity
https://splentity.com/

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