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- Published on October 16th 2008
October 16th / Welcome to MaNGOS, the free MMORPG server
MaNGOS moved
In the light of the last weeks we have moved our community forums to a new home. With the recent speed losses seen at our forums and on the Subversion repository, we have decided to make the switch to a different hosting solution which can handle the increased traffic.
MaNGOS moved
Our new discussion forums are located on http://getmangos.com/community/.
All accounts from the old discussion forums have been migrated to our new forums. Due to technical limitations account password have not been migrated.
Re-activating your forum account
In order to re-activate your forum account, please follow the steps below.
- Receive a new forum password: Use the lost password recovery to receive a new password for your account.
- Wait for the confirmation mail: After a few moments you will receive an email containing the link the set up a new password.
- Provide a new password: Open the link in the email, and enter a new password.
- Log in to your account and use the forums.
If your email address has changed since your registered the forum account, you will be unable to reset your password.
In that case send an email to forum-recovery[AT]getmangos[DOT]com, and provide your username and the email you have been using for the account.
Please send the mail from a valid email account, as we will use this address to enable the password recovery function for your account.
MaNGOS premieres on GitHub.com
GitHub has launched a while ago and the MaNGOS core team took the chance to evaluate both Git GitHub.com. We now have finished our evaluation of Git and migrated the old MaNGOS subversion repository to GitHub.com.
The MaNGOS repository now lives at mangos/mangos and you can check out the code with Git using the following command:
If you don’t have git, or don’t enjoy running it on your platform, you need not fear. Git is easy to learn and comes with lots of excellent tools to make you enjoy your daily Git dose. For an introductory view on what Git is and can do for you, visit git-scm.com. If you are an experienced user of version control systems, you might want to head over to the Git website.
This also means that development on the Subversion repository has stopped and will no longer be kept up to date. We’ll keep the Subversion repository around for some time for people to transition off svn:externals, though. But if you want the latest edge, you’ll have to use git.
We hope you’ll enjoy this upgrade to the MaNGOS collaboration infrastructure. We’re really looking forward to the onslaught of marvellous patches that the Git lords have promised us will flow from the mountain now.
MaNGOS on Lighthouse
Lighthouse “version 2” deployed yesterday, so I’m officially opening the MaNGOS Lighthouse tracker up for business. As mentioned before, this means the current trac instance is deprecated. It will continue to stay in use for now until everyone has transitioned to Lighthouse.
We’re still figuring out the new workflow with git, Github, and Lighthouse. We will be working on bringing the same development tools to the new git infrastructure. For now, there is a short introduction available on how to get the best out of MaNGOS on Git.