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We merged julia/intergalactic-transmission nearly 24h ago. Exercism awarded some rep for the PR, but completely failed to pick up the new exercise: not listed on the Practice tab, still listed as unimplemented on the build status page, and of course no rep for authoring.

This is the relevant bit of config.json, from the current version in main:

      {
        "slug": "intergalactic-transmission",
        "name": "Intergalactic Transmission",
        "uuid": "5cac3770-abd2-48ec-b54d-96957355f620",
        "practices": [
          "bitwise-operations"
        ],
        "prerequisites": [
          "bitwise-operations",
          "loops"
        ],
        "difficulty": 6
      },

That seems uncontroversial, so I’ve no idea what glitched between GH and Exercism. I know there have been some recent DNS issues, but I see recent exercises for Zig and OCaml were published successfully.

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We never persuaded Exercism to notice PR #1008, so we reverted in #1009 then re-submitted in #1010. Success at last! Intergalactic Transmission is now available on the Julia track.

It will be interesting to see how popular this is. It’s a well-designed exercise that adds something unusual to the track, but I suspect it may divide opinion among students.

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