An emergency replacement for the CIA service is coming.
<p>A few hours ago I learned that, due to a virtual-server mishap, the cia.vc notification service is <a href="http://shadowm.rewound.net/blog/archives/245-CIA.vc-is-dead.html">dead</a>.  And not coming back.</p>
<p>This was not entirely unexpected.  The CIA codebase was a shambles, the service has been flaky and subject to outages, and the server-site operator who inherited it has for some time been muttering darkly that the end was probably nigh.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting on a lightweight replacement for CIA since late August, holding off shipping until it was clear whether or not a salvage effort on the codebase was going to succeed.  That option is off the table now, so I&#8217;m going into emergency overdrive to get a release out.</p>
<p>The main thing that still needs to be done is for me to finish and test a hook script for git repos, so that when I ship the admins at places like SourceForge and GitHub will be able to drop in both a server instance and the correct hook code.  This script will also be a model for hooks serving other VCSes such as Mercurial, Subversion, and (ugh) CVS.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m working on that now and expect to ship within 48 hours.  Watch this space.</p>
