Added news item about moving to a monorepo.

Author: erikogenvik

README.md

@@ -11,13 +11,14 @@ It uses the [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) static site generator.
 
 * Install Hugo. Last working version is 0.108
 * Run ```hugo```
-* Upload the content of the "public" directory to the www.worldforge.org site. Typically through rsync, like ```rsync -aP public/* www.worldforge.org:www```
+* Upload the content of the "public" directory to the www.worldforge.org site. Typically through rsync,
+  like ```rsync -aP public/* www.worldforge.org:www```
 
 ## Development
 
 During development you can keep an instance of Hugo running, to allow for automatic updates while you edit the site.
 
-Do this through 
+Do this through
 
 ``` bash
 hugo server -D

content/about/news/2023-11-07.md

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+---
+title: "Moving to a monorepo"
+date: 2023-11-07
+---
+
+The Worldforge project contains a large selection of different libraries, server, client and tools. For quite some while
+these have all been spread out into separate repositories. One of our initial thoughts was to release these components
+separately so that various third party projects could use them. However, as time went by it became apparent that this
+vision never materialized. None of our libraries have seen use outside Worldforge.
+
+Thus is was only natural to combine the components that are in active use into one monorepo, which can be
+found [here](https://github.com/worldforge/worldforge). The repository contains
+the [Cyphesis server](https://github.com/worldforge/worldforge/tree/master/apps/cyphesis),
+the [Ember client](https://github.com/worldforge/worldforge/tree/master/apps/ember)
+and all of [the libraries](https://github.com/worldforge/worldforge/tree/master/libs) that are needed to build them.
+This means that the older repositories containing code for
+components are now in archive mode.
+
+There are still a couple of repositories that we don't feel should be pulled into the monorepo. Amongst these is the
+[Worlds repository](https://github.com/worldforge/worlds) which contains the demo worlds.
+
+Along with this change the build setup has been greatly improved, and there's no longer any need for the Hammer tool.