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Bug tracker temporarily offline

Andrew Hodgkinson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:28:00 +0000

A fault has developed in our bug tracker that causes it to consume all CPU on our web server when we attempt to start it. The problem seems related to the Subversion repository and causes sufficient load of the back-end database that the rest of the web site becomes unable to respond – this was the cause of our brief site down time earlier this week.

I’m investigating the problem but other commitments mean it may be a while before it can be resolved. In the mean time, if you have bugs to report or discuss, please use the bugs forum.

Thanks for your patience!

USB sticks available from ROOL site

Steve Revill — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:53:00 +0000

ROOL are very happy to announce the immediate availability of two different ROOL-branded USB sticks to buy from the ROOL store.

These sticks represent a proud milestone for RISC OS Open; we’ve been working towards creating a stand-alone RISC OS solution for Windows and Mac users since we formed in 2006. Thanks to everyone who made this possible!

Sign-up process changed

Andrew Hodgkinson — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:20:00 +0100

The ROOL sign-up process through Hub has historically been simple and easy to use with low demand on web browsers so that RISC OS users running software of all vintages have a good chance of signing up. Unfortunately we’ve been forced to change this in response to increasing attacks from so-called “spambots”.

Planned web site down time

Andrew Hodgkinson — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:28:00 +0000

The RISC OS Open web site will be undergoing a few changes in the next day or two. These include an evolution of the existing site design which renders more quickly in NetSurf and replacement of the problematic Wiki engine with one which will hopefully prove more reliable.

It is necessary to take the site offline completely during the upgrade process. Data must be migrated from the old to new Wiki and no changes can be permitted during that time. The web server architecture is being overhauled too. As a result we are planning for an hour or two of downtime in the next couple of days.

Scheduled downtime

Andrew Hodgkinson — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:36:00 +0100

The server hosting the ROOL web site and source repository services will be offline for maintenance work later today. It should only take an hour or two.

New IYONIX ROM release (version 5.16)

Steve Revill — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:00 +0000

RISC OS Open (ROOL) are pleased to announce the immediate release of the very latest RISC OS ROM release from Castle Technology (Castle) for the IYONIX pc desktop computer.

This is an official release from Castle and represents the second formal ROM release to include changes and improvements which have been fed back into the shared source project.

You can download your copy of RISC OS 5.16, either as a softload (to try it out) or as a ROM programmer tool, from this page.

Please note that in order to fix the incorrect date bug seem on some machines in 2010 with RISC OS 5.15 or earlier, you must program the ROM into Flash.

CVS repository incremental archives

Steve Revill — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:23:00 +0000

To help people who want to keep a mirror of our CVS repository on their own machines, we’ve been publishing a cvs-repos tarball on our downloads pages which includes all of the repository (minus the CVSROOT directory that you have to create yourself). This tarball is automatically generated in the early hours of each morning (UK time).

However, this is a bit wasteful of bandwidth and painful for people to download and dearchive every time they want to update their local mirror. So to help out, we’ve introduced three smaller tarballs:

1. cvs-repos-day 2. cvs-repos-week 3. cvs-repos-month

These are each rebuilt every morning but only include files which have changed in the last 24 hours, seven days or one month respectively. We hope this makes things much easier for keeping your mirrored source repositories up to date.

Note: due to the way they are built, the archives do include lots of empty directories (the whole directory structure) but none of the repository files unless they changed within the specified time period.

Updates on the ROOL website

Steve Revill — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:51:00 +0100

In advance of the London Show this weekend, RISC OS Open have updated a large number of the downloads to the latest and greatest versions.

All of the source code archives are automatically updated each night but prebuilt items, such as ROM images and applications, are only updated when we perform builds.

To assist with the on-going work on the Beagleboard, all of our pre-built components are now ARMv7 safe and the OMAP ROM build is up to date. We’ve updated the RISC OS 5.15 ROM build (for IYONIX softload) to use the latest sources in CVS, too.

Autobuilds and daily updates

Steve Revill — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:31:00 +0100

RISC OS Open have finished implementing a system which automatically rebuilds the source code tarballs on the web site.

We have also automated the process of testing various builds and uploading the results to our web site – assuming the builds don’t fail!

Over time, we will be extending this process to build more and more components straight from our source repository so you can be sure that the versions of software that you download from our web site are reasonably up-to-date.

New RISC OS 5 for the IYONIX

Steve Revill — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:47:00 +0000

ROOL have built a new version of RISC OS (5.14) and successfully programmed the image into an IYONIX. This build includes a snapshot of all the latest updates and submissions to the shared source project from the community.