There, that was relatively painless. The server has now been
relocated from one coast to the other (3,051 miles away). Zero downtime.
New things so far:
- MUCH faster access and response time now. Connection is roughly
four times faster than the previous network.
- plkr.{com|net|org} domains route to the same page (it's our
CreatorID, plucker.{com|net|org} were taken, so I registered this
one). The previous domain, plucker.gnu-designs.{com|net|org} still
will work. Someone want to volunteer to go through the docs and
code and change the references to point to plkr.org instead? Or
should we leave it as-is?
- CVS is now directly accessible via cvs.plkr.{com|net|org},
plucker.sourcefubar.{com|net|org} (.com and .org seem to be down
for some reason, routing problem, but .net is up, I've filed an
incident)
- bugs.plkr.{com|net|org} works.
The author of Mantis and I were working on some bugs last night in
the new code. At some point in the near future, I'll roll to that
new codebase. There are a lot of new things waiting in the wings.
The most important for us as developers is the email-only
interface into the system, so we don't have to be in a browser to
update/view/close bugs. There's also a bit of a bug where
bugs.plkr.org brings you to the generic project page. I'm going to
add some code to allow that to bring you right to the Plucker bugs
page. All the data is in one database, so it's not as easy as it
looks to select it. Rasmus, Prescience and myself came up with a
really good idea last night to try on this. More on that later.
- ftp is currently disabled, until I can secure it properly with the
new account system I'm implementing. Mike, I'll pull your releases
from sslug.dk for the moment until that's back online. Once I get
this set back up and locked down, I'll make the releases
accessible via gopher and ftp as well as web.
I'm trying to give the developers a 'Release' page where we can
upload and add a news blurb for releases. Delegation! =)
- cvs-over-ssh for developers, pserver for anonymous users. Much
more secure, and allows the developers to use the box to do builds
and also to change their password. CVS itself doesn't include a
facility to change cvs passwords. This will fix that. chrooting
ssh into a quota'd compile farm has proven to be a bit
interesting. A week or two more and it will be working for
everyone.
cvs for those who are already using it will work as normal, but if
you want to begin to point your $CVSROOT to
cvs.sourcefubar.net:/cvs/plucker, that will be static. You could
also use cvs.plkr.org:/cvs/plucker if you wanted. They both point
to the same thing. I've changed it on the Contact page as well.
I'm also getting the mailing lists aggregated into a search engine.
I've got every single email since the beginning here online, so I'll add
that. Should be a week or three, once all the other services prove to be
stable.
I had the chance to interview Mark Lillywhite the other night, and
will stick the contents of that online as well. Mark, thanks! You may
receive a "surprise" in the mail soon, once I can figure out how to ship it
down there.
If there's anything else anybody wants to add, comment on, critique,
please let me know. Once I'm done with this migration and domain juggling
mess, I'll be hopping back on the codebase. I need to get away from
pilot-link for a few weeks, my eyes are going blurry looking at it.
There's a lot of new things planned, and quite a few other people
are jumping onboard and offering to help with various bits and pieces of the
project. This is good! To those doing translations, code fixes,
documentation, everything else, on behalf of the entire team, we thank you.
Keep up the great work!
Now off to catch a standby flight to the other coast to celebrate my
30th birthday with my girlfriend. Everybody, have a great weekend!
/d
p.s. (I'll be email-accessible if there are problems)
