On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Ximin Luo <xl269 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Evan Daniel wrote: >> There has been plenty of time spent discussing this before, without >> any conclusions. ?The problem isn't that a decision was made but not >> implemented due to lack of manpower, it's that there was no decision. > > I mean, it doesn't seem to me like anyone (apart from you) actually took the > time to consider the problem deeply, and to devise a solution. The sf.net idea > seems fine (if they do have an easy backup option).
Well, I haven't considered it deeply :) The subject has come up a couple times before, on email in the context of getting rid of emu, and on IRC. SF provides a simple link to download a backup file. Oddly, I don't see a "restore" link to go with it, but I haven't looked around much. > > If you/anyone hits upon a good idea and people don't respond quickly enough, I > think it's best to just go for it and stop pissing around waiting for enough > "ayes" to an idea which is probably not disagreeable. If people don't like it, > they can always complain; it's just a risk you have to take to get things > done. > I think the risk is low enough here to ignore, anyway. I tend to agree. However, this particular change requires assistance from someone with admin access to the website and the SF project. The main technical impediment is converting the Wikka content. I haven't researched that. Evan Daniel
