The ciabot hook code in contrib/ is obsolete - delete it

From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2012, 02:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20120928024045.E0D6F42F19@snark.thyrsus.com>

The CIA notification server died about two days ago, done in by a screwup at the cloud service hosting is VM. For various technical reasons there cannot and will not be any effort to revive it. If you want the whole sordid tale, read "CIA and the perils of overengineering" at <http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4540>.

Accordingly, the contrib/ciabot code is now obsolete and should be removed.

I have written a replacement service. irker, with a different (and fundamentally simpler) design. Though I released irker just today, it already has multiple deployments. A lot of hackers like their IRC commit notifications and have instantly seized on this option to get such a service running again - this time as a distributed flock of lightweight notifier proxy daemons that cannot be taken out by any single-point failure.

Interested persons may wish to monitor the freenode #cia channel, which is morphing into a discussion about coordinating irker deployment and building various proxy/symbiote/statistics-gathering services around it.

I'm shipping a generic repo-hook script that supports both git and Subversion in the irker distribution, so there won't be any need for git to carry a special hook. I remain grateful for your previous cooperation in supporting and distributing the ciabot code.

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