Path: ...!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!news.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.admin.hierarchies Subject: control-archive 1.3.0 released Followup-To: news.admin.hierarchies Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:02:42 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Lines: 74 Message-ID: <87r5po9i1p.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: windlord.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.stanford.edu 1263787362 22205 171.67.225.134 (18 Jan 2010 04:02:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QpxlvgwETfxOg7SxayVSpWXWgic= Bytes: 4041 I'm pleased to announce release 1.3.0 of control-archive. This software generates an INN control.ctl configuration file from hierarchy configuration fragments, verifies control messages using GnuPG where possible, processes new control messages to update a newsgroup list, archives new control messages, and exports the list of newsgroups in a format suitable for synchronizing the newsgroup list of a Netnews news server. It is the software that maintains the control message and newsgroup lists available from ftp.isc.org. Changes from previous release: Special-case public hierarchies with no control message senders and add a comment saying that the hierarchy is in use, but has no active maintainer. Move nc.*, nersc.*, and nord.* out of special to use this new format, and document the extra information about nc.* in the hierarchy notes file. Support parsing multi-line vectors in the configuration syntax. Add a comment field to the configuration syntax and include its value in control.ctl before the metadata headers. Add a new reserved hierarchy type, for hierarchies that are reserved for special purposes. This is slightly different than any of the existing statuses. When generating PGPKEYS and README.html, allow for the possibility of having no control message senders for abandoned hierarchies. The key fingerprint pseudo-header in control.ctl entries now matches the syntax of the other pseudo-headers, using a colon instead of an equal sign. Hierarchy updates: * Update description for belwue.* to be more correct * Add contact, URL, and fingerprint for belwue.* * Add contact, URL, and admin group for bln.* * Add fingerprint and admin group for ffm.* * Add admin group for kassel.* * Remove sender and URL, add admin group for kiel.* * Add key URL for muc.* * Add new public hierarchy owl.* (Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany) * Update description for sachsnet.* * Add contact, fingerprint, and admin group for stgt.* * Add contact, URL, sync server, and admin group for thur.* * Remove sender, contact, URL, and sync server for ufra.* * Add new private hierarchy ulm.* (Ulm, Germany) * Remove control sender for fido.*; the domain is for sale * Add information about muenster.* to hierarchy notes * Include more information in example.* entry * Remove control message processing for fa.*, use no sender template * Add more explanation for local.* Thanks to Thomas Hochstein for the updates to the regional German groups and fido.*. Documentation updates: * Supersedes is allowed but not recommended in control messages You can download it from: This package is maintained using Git; see the instructions on the above page to access the Git repository. Please let me know of any problems or feature requests not already listed in the TODO file. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)