Also remember that Owen just started a new job at Owncloud, so he is understandably busy. Also, leaves of absence are good for the nerves so to speak, and Owen has been in need of a break from Habari for a while.
On Aug 9, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Chris Meller <ch...@doesnthaveone.com> wrote: > I wouldn't worry that anything is going to up and disappear in the next > couple of days, even if it does stay under Owen's account. He may not have > been on IRC, but he's still been accessible in other ways when needed, and > provided he can find a spare second or two. > > Also remember that "donations" are basically to Owen, who would then be > responsible for paying taxes on them. Unless we could find some existing > tax-free entity that works with open source projects and which we were > comfortable basically "owning" all our assets, there's really no way around > *someone* eventually footing that (admittedly very minor now) bill in one way > or another. > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Sean T. Evans <se...@morydd.net> wrote: > If I had to guess, I'd suspect he's traveling. It's nearing the end of the > summer, so he may very well have taken his kids for one last adventure before > school starts. > > > On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Drew Heath wrote: > Thank you for elaborating. I'm willing to "buy" a few months of server > hosting. Owen's absence from IRC and this list is worrying though. > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Chris Meller <ch...@doesnthaveone.com> wrote: > Sorry, Drew. We already have a plan for where to move so I didn't think you > still wanted an answer. > > To answer your question, we at one point ran Trac, which is a Python-based > beast of a machine killer. Since it is gone we run a Habari instance for the > blog and one for the addons directory (which includes some packaging and what > not overhead). Other than that there are a handful of cron jobs that run > between hourly and daily and the horridly outdated MediaWiki install (that is > bound to get us hacked eventually) that no one likes. > > In other words, pretty much nothing significant. A 512 droplet should be more > than enough after a bit of MySQL tuning. Though since Trac is gone, we could > probably fall back to SQLite for the Habari instances. Not sure what else > MediaWiki supports or if its even worth exploring. > > If any of us had a little more time on our hands, we could actually switch to > Postgres so we actively have a testbed for it. But after migrating my site to > it, I'd not recommend that path for the unadventurous with no free time on > their hands. > > > On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Drew Heath wrote: > Imma ask again: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing > > Can someone please tell me what sort of plan HP needs? > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Chris Meller <ch...@doesnthaveone.com> wrote: > Owen, the one who is still paying the bills. > > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Chris J. Davis <c...@chrisjdavis.org> wrote: > Yes please. And who is “we” in this context? > > On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Chris Meller <ch...@doesnthaveone.com> wrote: > >> We are secretly ahead of you. There is a Digital Ocean box set up that had >> an Nginx + PHP + MySQL install script run on it. I've not had time to do >> more than poke it, unfortunately. If you shoot me an SSH public key, I can >> get you added. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Drew Heath <andrew.m.he...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Forgive my ignorance, what sort of server capability does Habari need? That >> way I can help in the provider search. >> >> - Drew >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Chris J. Davis <c...@chrisjdavis.org> wrote: >> We need to start a discussion about moving these servers to a new host (I >> would really like to move them to Digital Ocean >> (https://www.digitalocean.com) and we need to come up with some mechanism >> for paying for our infrastructure that doesn’t involve “Owen pays for it.” >> >> I am happy to contribute cash to our hosting needs, and would love to help >> with maintaining servers. I already host a bit at Digital Ocean and really >> love the service and you can’t beat the speed and cost. >> >> So, I would like to propose we get this decision made, and a plan of action >> put in place by the end of August. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> -- >> To post to this group, send email to habari-dev@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> habari-dev-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "habari-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to habari-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > -- > To post to this group, send email to habari-dev@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > habari-dev-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "habari-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to habari-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > -- > To post to this group, send email to habari-dev@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > habari-dev-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "habari-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to habari-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- To post to this group, send email to habari-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to habari-dev-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "habari-dev" group. 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