The first (and last) news post in 6.5 years!
The first (and last) news post in 6.5 years!
This is a heads-up that the forum will be offline for 24-48 hours later this week as we move from Redmine to a modern forum software and enable GitHub issues for bug tracking. This will be a deliberate 'hard' change with no migration of old (mostly very old) content and issues. Redmine will be read-only accessible on https://old.tvheadend.org for two months to allow manual recreation of must-have forum content or current issues in new locations. Reminders will be posted to the new forum as we count down to the final Redmine turn-off.
Issues have already been migrated to GitHub, so bug reports should be opened over there. New bug reports on Redmine have been disabled now, but old bug reports can still be accessed.
Redmine accounts will be pre-registered in the new forum to preserve usernames, email addresses, and registration dates. We cannot migrate user passwords so everyone will need to follow a "forgotten password" workflow to (re)set their new forum password. Your Redmine username (not full name) will be your identity in the new forum. Redmine accounts that we believe to be spam-bot registrations (approx. 55% of all accounts) will not be migrated. Redmine accounts with email address usernames will not be migrated to prevent the email from becoming visible. If you are forced to re-register but want your original forum registration date restored, please register with the same email address then ask admins to update your user profile (we can cross-reference your email against the old user DB to do this).
The new forum brings lots of improvements: dynamic thread/post tagging, media integration, mobile device support, user management and anti-spam controls. Online communities are defined by their users not their forum software, so it will look and feel different, but different will soon be the new normal. Moving issue tracking to GitHub will help to increase activity and engagement around the codebase, and in the long-term we hope this will encourage greater contribution as we move away from a "sole maintainer" mentality.
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Great news, glad people are keeping the project alive and developing! I'm still using it here many, many years since first getting involved :-) Thank you all for your continued efforts.
I can only echo Andy's message. Many thanks!
The threat of a hard deadline prompted several efforts to migrate forum content from Redmine. One of them has progressed nicely and later today (5th Feb) we will be taking Redmine offline to run the live migration. This will be 'softer' migration than previously communicated, so we hope you like it.