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 > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
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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