On Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:36 Bob McElrath wrote: > > Is the backup at http://axiom.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/ and the > main mathaction wiki synchronized? i.e. if someone makes > a change on the axiom.risc.uni-linz.ac.at site, does it > get propagated to the main site?
Yes, I am using ZSyncer on both sites. Right now the process is still manual - mostly due to a problem involving "last_modified_date" on ZWiki pages separated by 7 timezones. I am planning to synchronize the two sites at least once per week. In the future I think this can be largely automated (except for edit conflicts). Eventually we might get software that makes this easier. > If not, it is probably best not to advertise the backup > site, because it will just cause headaches if people use > it. (In fact, it is probably best to keep it offline to > prevent google discovering it and leading people to use > it.) > An offline backup has it's merits and I think we should continue to do that on a regular basis. Note that Tim Daly has recently extended the service contract with RoseHosting to include a nightly backup of the contents of axiom-developer. I have thought about how best to use the new mirror site and I strongly believe that it should be a full and completely accessible mirror of the main Axiom site. Keeping a live mirror provides the incentive to keep the backup site up to date. It is ready to go and immediately in case of any problems with the other site. In the future if they are allowed to diverge in content I also think that is not necessarily such a bad thing - provided that both sites remain open and accessible. Perhaps some users will feel a greater affinity for a web server that is physically closer to them? and as a result they might devote more time to it than otherwise would be the case. Also inevitably there may be a diversity of interests in how Axiom is used and how it can be further developed. Since this is an open source project, I think we should not be afraid of such a possibility, although given our current very limited resources it might be prudent to try to concentrate our efforts on less ambitious goals. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
