Thanks to the work of Aleix Conchillo Flaqué, Mercurial is now available at Savannah!

You can enable it in your project through the top menu:
Main -> Select Features -> Mercurial

Repositories will be created within 1/2 hour and visible at
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/

You can also read an introduction at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingHg

We upgraded:
- Git to v1.5.5.1 (from v1.5.4.2)
- rsync to v3 (from v2; used for file uploads and VCS raw access)

Thanks to http://www.backports.org/ for providing packages, easing the Savannah maintenance :)

There was downtime for around 2 hours today, mostly because of a fsck after a reboot.

The cause of the interruption appears to be:
- Numerous archzoom requests triggering an increased number of disk-hungry tla processes.
- Concurrent web crawlers indexing these pages.
- Made worse by a arch.sv.gnu.org => arch.savannah.gnu.org site-wide redirection earlier this week.

tla is temporarily disabled and the load has returned to normal. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Happy GNU year!

RMS suggested rejecting patches from non-registered users, for both GNU and non-GNU projects, because the FSF legal team recommends against accepting patches from anonymous users. While non-registered users may authenticate their patches by other means (GPG...), this is considered as a first step against anonymous patches. ...