Help wanted: rehost old/defunct wargames (with proper attribution)

[zardus]

Wargames are hard to keep running, and some online resources dry up. It would be cool to save them. Here is a list of defunct wargames with available source:

• https://github.com/PwnFunction/sandbox.pwnfunction.com

[tesuji]

How do community dojos switch to this new format? (Most was based on the example dojo) And should they ? How long is the old format supported?

[zardus]

We haven't gotten community dojos figured out in the new format yet, and don't have plans on forcing a change. I didn't know where else to put this issue at the moment, though now that I think about it, maybe a wargame-archive dojo makes sense (or maybe it can even go into the ctf-archive dojo)

[ConnorNelson]

@tesuji We don't yet have any of https://pwn.college actually feeding from this repository yet. Once we do, and we've figured out any important pain-points (and hopefully addressed them), I'd like to encourage others to consider migrating their community materials into this repository.

This will have benefits such as:

1. Automatic detection of problems when we make (big) changes. We can easily run everyone's test-cases before we deploy the change and see the impact.
2. In some cases, automatic resolution of problems. We may have just slightly adjusted some interface and be able to roll out tree-wide upgrades to all challenges in an automated/semi-automated fashion.
3. Community maintenance/improvements. One of the ideas we think is going to be critical as we continue to grow/expand is getting more people involved in the process of maintaining/improving materials. Our hope is that this repository will facilitate good workflows for doing that, and that other content-creators would really benefit from this as well.
4. Challenges living on. Similar to the prior, but right now if someone contributes awesome content, but then no longer has time to maintain those challenges, they kind of just die. I don't think this has been a major issue yet, but I think it could become a big problem, and I think it at least slightly holds us back from being especially serious about endorsing unofficial material. It could in some cases seriously make sense for another community member to step up and become a maintainer of otherwise-abandoned materials.

As @zardus said, I don't think we currently have plans of forcing people to migrate into this repository to have their content hosted on https://pwn.college/. But we'd be super curious to see, when we get there, how people feel about this idea, and if they like the idea of moving their materials here. Maybe if this idea is wildly successful, we do just require that challenges live here if they want to be on https://pwn.college/, but I think it's wayyyy too early to really seriously consider that, and we'd certainly give people a big heads up if we did ever move in that direction.