Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move

2003-10-07 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:43:28 +0200, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 5 Oct 2003, at 13:46, Sven Neumann wrote:
  David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   [...] There is no reason why
   mmmaybe shouldn't have become www a couple of weeks ago.
  
  If you would have read gimp-web list (where this topic should actually
  be discussed), you would know that there were good reasons for not
  doing the move immidiately. 
 
 I do read the gimp-web list, and I have no idea what you are talking 
 about. The last blocker was resolved last Monday or the Monday 
 before, IIRC.

I suppose that Sven was refering to the comments made on the Thursday
the 18th in bug #121299.  Some of these comments and the related
issues were relayed to the gimp-web list by scizzo in the thread with
the subject Moving of site proposal.  Moving the web site on the
18th was not a good idea because there were still too many broken
pages that could not be fixed immediately, so instead it was proposed
to move it on Sunday 21th.  This did not happen (Yosh said on the
following Monday that he had been too busy) and a few additional
improvements were done in the meantime, so the site was officially
declared ready with the message Status of the new web site that I
posted on Tuesday the 23rd.

  I believe that most or evenall of these
  points have been addressed in the meantime but we should leave it up
  to the web team to decide when they want to move the site.
 
 Could you please tell us which part of the web team has to say the 
 word? 

I don't think that there are any official rules for that (and I doubt
that there should be any).  However, if there is a consensus among the
active members of the web team and/or if the web coordinator (yours
truly) says that it is OK, then we can say that the decision has been
taken.  Both of them happened two weeks ago.  So the official
decision is that the web site should move as soon as possible.

There is no need to wait for any additional decisions.  As far as I
know, the last blocker is that Yosh should find some spare time for
moving the site and all user accounts from the old machine to the new
one.  There are still some things that should be done with the new web
site, such as updating the news on the home page or adding links to
some files from the gimp and gimp-1-2 CVS modules (INSTALL, Wilber
construction kit and others) but this will be much easier to do once
the user accounts are moved so that I can set up the corresponding
links and scripts on the new box.

-Raphaël
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Re: mailing list problems (was: Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move)

2003-10-07 Thread David Neary
Hi,

Sven Neumann wrote:
I eventually found a way to make it work.  I don't remember
exactly how but there are several ways (web or e-mail) to
subscribe and to confirm the subscription and at least one of
them works.  Please try subscribing again, because any
discussion about the web site should take place on the gimp-web
list.

Raphael, how can one subscribe by mail? I'm only aware of the
mailman web interface.

 Problems subscribing to the gimp-user list were also reported today on
 the cinepaint-developers list. Someone should look into this since we
 really need these lists working. If you or someone else remembers how
 to work around the problem, please let us know.

For information, there is the entirity of the page when I try to
subscribe to gimp-web:

Bug in Mailman version 2.1b4

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a
copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a
description of what happened. Thanks!
Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/lists/mailman/scripts/driver, line 87, in run_main
main()
  File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py, line 94, in
main
process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, language)
  File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py, line 176,
in process_form
mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote)
  File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py, line 807, in
AddMember
cookie = Pending.new(Pending.SUBSCRIPTION, userdesc)
  File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py, line 64, in new
db = _load()
  File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py, line 121, in
_load
return cPickle.load(fp)
TypeError: dict objects are unhashable



Python information:

VariableValue
sys.version 2.2.1 (#1, Oct 5 2002, 11:19:44) [GCC 2.95.4
20020320 [FreeBSD]]
sys.executable  /usr/local/bin/python
sys.prefix  /usr/local
sys.exec_prefix /usr/local
sys.path/usr/local
sys.platformfreebsd4

Environment variables:

VariableValue
PATH_INFO   /gimp-web
HTTP_ACCEPT
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
CONTENT_TYPEapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_REFERER
https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.11
OpenSSL/0.9.6g
PYTHONPATH  /usr/lists/mailman
SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lists/mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe
SERVER_ADMIN[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/subscribe
SERVER_SIGNATURE
Apache/1.3.27 Server at lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Port 443
REQUEST_METHOD  POST
HTTP_HOST   lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300
HTTPS   on
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
QUERY_STRING
PATH_TRANSLATED /usr/local/www/data/gimp-web
REQUEST_URI /mailman/subscribe/gimp-web
CONTENT_LENGTH  105
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive
SERVER_NAME lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
REMOTE_ADDR 194.206.161.214
REMOTE_PORT 21927
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGEen-us,en;q=0.5
UNIQUE_ID   P4KKz4AgcPIAAFGVafA
SERVER_PORT 443
GATEWAY_INTERFACE   CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODINGgzip,deflate
SERVER_ADDR 128.32.112.242
DOCUMENT_ROOT   /usr/local/www/data

Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: mailing list problems (was: Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move)

2003-10-07 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On 06 Oct 2003 18:44:08 +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  P.S.: Dave, you mentioned that you had problems subscribing to the
gimp-web list.  I remember having had some problems as well, but
I eventually found a way to make it work.  [...]
 
 Problems subscribing to the gimp-user list were also reported today on
 the cinepaint-developers list. Someone should look into this since we
 really need these lists working. If you or someone else remembers how
 to work around the problem, please let us know.

Well, it looks like the mailing lists are completely broken now.  When
I tried last month, it was still possible to get around the mailman
bug that was triggered during the confirmation step.  But now the
crash occurs during the first step of the subscription, so there is no
way to avoid it.  I just tried to subscribe a new address to the
gimp-web and gimp-developer mailing lists and I immediately got the
following error message:

--
  Bug in Mailman version 2.1b4

  We're sorry, we hit a bug!

  If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a
  copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description
  of what happened. Thanks!

  Traceback:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lists/mailman/scripts/driver, line 87, in run_main
  main()
File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py, line 94, in main
  process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, language)
File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py, line 176, in process_form
  mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote)
File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py, line 807, in AddMember
  cookie = Pending.new(Pending.SUBSCRIPTION, userdesc)
File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py, line 64, in new
  db = _load()
File /usr/lists/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py, line 121, in _load
  return cPickle.load(fp)
  TypeError: dict objects are unhashable
--
[...more info snipped ...]

So after the archives, now it is the subscription mechanism that is
broken.  If I am not mistaken, nobody can subscribe to any of the gimp
mailing lists (user, developer or web) until this problem is fixed.

-Raphaël
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Re: mailing list problems (was: Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move)

2003-10-07 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:31:45 +0200, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I eventually found a way to make it work.  I don't remember
 exactly how but there are several ways (web or e-mail) to
 subscribe and to confirm the subscription and at least one of
 them works.  Please try subscribing again, because any
 discussion about the web site should take place on the gimp-web
 list.
 
 Raphael, how can one subscribe by mail? I'm only aware of the
 mailman web interface.

As I wrote at the same minute (but 24 seconds before your message ;-)),
the problem that I observed a few weeks ago was only in the confirmation
process, not in the first step of the subscription.  But now the problem
is even more severe: the first step is already broken, so it is not
possible to subscribe to any of the GIMP mailing lists.  :-(

-Raphaël
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Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move

2003-10-06 Thread Raphaël Quinet
Note: I am adding a CC: to the gimp-web list and I suggest to continue
the discussion there because this is slightly off-topic for the
developers list.

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:01:29 +0200, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Sven Neumann wrote:
  David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   The web team says it's ready to move, several developers have said
   they want it to move now, I just wanted to sort out what exactly is
   preventing the website move.
  
  If you would have read gimp-web list (where this topic should actually
  be discussed), you would know that there were good reasons for not
  doing the move immidiately. I believe that most or evenall of these
  points have been addressed in the meantime but we should leave it up
  to the web team to decide when they want to move the site.

Yes, most of these points have been addressed in the meantime and the
site has been ready since the 23rd of September.  On that day, I
posted a message to the gimp-web list summarizing the status of the
web site, the recent changes, and saying that the site was ready for
the move.  Some additional issues were raised, and fixed on the same
day.  There have been almost no changes to the web site since then,
because everybody in the web team is waiting for the site to move.

[...]
 So as far as I can tell, the web team is waiting for the switch
 to happen. I am honestly interested in knowing why it hasn't.

Moving the web site will require more than a simple DNS switch: the
machine hosting the old web site will be replaced by the new one.  So
moving the web site requires moving all user accounts from the old
machine (wilber) to the new one.  Wilber is also hosting most of the
other *.gimp.org web sites (such as developer.gimp.org) and handles
all gimp.org e-mail traffic.  This migration will have to be done by
someone who has root access for both machines and who can update all
DNS entries, so this is out of the scope of the gimp-web team.  As far
as I know, the only ones who can do something about it are Yosh
(Manish Singh) and Snorfle (Shawn T. Amundson).

Two weeks ago, Yosh sent an e-mail saying that he was too busy to move
the site at that time, but he was hoping to do it soon.  Last week, he
sent me a message saying that he would try to do it during the
weekend.  It looks like he didn't have the time to do it.  He is
probably too busy with other things.  Although the wait and the lack
of updates are a bit frustrating, I cannot really blame him for that:
as I am also doing the gimp stuff during my spare time, I understand
that when you have little or no spare time, it is difficult to take
care of the GIMP, the web site, etc.  Sometimes, real life gets in the
way of the fun stuff.  :-(  And if Yosh is the only one who can do
something about it, I prefer to let him find enough time to do it
right than to do half of the job in a hurry and then leave the web
site or some accounts in a broken state that can only be fixed later
when he finds more time.

-Raphaël

P.S.: Dave, you mentioned that you had problems subscribing to the
  gimp-web list.  I remember having had some problems as well, but
  I eventually found a way to make it work.  I don't remember
  exactly how but there are several ways (web or e-mail) to
  subscribe and to confirm the subscription and at least one of
  them works.  Please try subscribing again, because any
  discussion about the web site should take place on the gimp-web
  list.
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Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move

2003-10-06 Thread Branko Collin
On 5 Oct 2003, at 13:46, Sven Neumann wrote:
 David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  The web team says it's ready to move, several developers have said
  they want it to move now, I just wanted to sort out what exactly is
  preventing the website move.
  
  What needs to be done to get www pointing at mmmaybe, and get wwwas
  pointing at www? Who has permission to do it? If only one person has
  the permissions to do this kind of thing, it would be nice to have
  at least 2 or 3 others get the necessary right to avoid these kinds
  of non-technical delays in the future. There is no reason why
  mmmaybe shouldn't have become www a couple of weeks ago.
 
 If you would have read gimp-web list (where this topic should actually
 be discussed), you would know that there were good reasons for not
 doing the move immidiately. 

I do read the gimp-web list, and I have no idea what you are talking 
about. The last blocker was resolved last Monday or the Monday 
before, IIRC.

 I believe that most or evenall of these
 points have been addressed in the meantime but we should leave it up
 to the web team to decide when they want to move the site.

Could you please tell us which part of the web team has to say the 
word? 

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mailing list problems (was: Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move)

2003-10-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

Raphal Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 P.S.: Dave, you mentioned that you had problems subscribing to the
   gimp-web list.  I remember having had some problems as well, but
   I eventually found a way to make it work.  I don't remember
   exactly how but there are several ways (web or e-mail) to
   subscribe and to confirm the subscription and at least one of
   them works.  Please try subscribing again, because any
   discussion about the web site should take place on the gimp-web
   list.

Problems subscribing to the gimp-user list were also reported today on
the cinepaint-developers list. Someone should look into this since we
really need these lists working. If you or someone else remembers how
to work around the problem, please let us know.


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[Gimp-developer] web site move

2003-10-05 Thread David Neary
Hi all,

The web team says it's ready to move, several developers have
said they want it to move now, I just wanted to sort out what
exactly is preventing the website move.

What needs to be done to get www pointing at mmmaybe, and get
wwwas pointing at www? Who has permission to do it? If only one
person has the permissions to do this kind of thing, it would be
nice to have at least 2 or 3 others get the necessary right to
avoid these kinds of non-technical delays in the future. There is
no reason why mmmaybe shouldn't have become www a couple of weeks
ago.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move

2003-10-05 Thread Branko Collin
On 5 Oct 2003, at 11:10, David Neary wrote:

 The web team says it's ready to move, several developers have
 said they want it to move now, I just wanted to sort out what
 exactly is preventing the website move.
 
 What needs to be done to get www pointing at mmmaybe, and get
 wwwas pointing at www? Who has permission to do it? If only one
 person has the permissions to do this kind of thing, it would be
 nice to have at least 2 or 3 others get the necessary right to
 avoid these kinds of non-technical delays in the future. There is no
 reason why mmmaybe shouldn't have become www a couple of weeks ago.

As far as I know, Raphael has some kind of write access, since he is 
obviously able to update the site that is currently running at 
www.gimp.org.

However, Raphael says it is up to Yosh to make the move. 

The domain name is registered by Shawn Amundson. 

Currently, the domain name points to IP number 128.32.112.248, which 
is part of an address range assigned to the University of California 
(more commonly known as 'Berkeley').

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Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move

2003-10-05 Thread David Neary
 Sven Neumann wrote:
  If you would have read gimp-web list (where this topic should actually
  be discussed), you would know that there were good reasons for not
  doing the move immidiately. I believe that most or evenall of these
  points have been addressed in the meantime but we should leave it up
  to the web team to decide when they want to move the site.

Also, I have tried on several occasions (most recently straight
after receiving this message) to subscribe to the gimp-web
mailing list, and have been unable to. The result page says I have hit 
a mailman bug, unfortunately I don't know who to contact about that.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] web site move

2003-10-05 Thread David Neary
Hi Sven,

Sven Neumann wrote:
 David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  The web team says it's ready to move, several developers have said
  they want it to move now, I just wanted to sort out what exactly is
  preventing the website move.
 
 If you would have read gimp-web list (where this topic should actually
 be discussed), you would know that there were good reasons for not
 doing the move immidiately. I believe that most or evenall of these
 points have been addressed in the meantime but we should leave it up
 to the web team to decide when they want to move the site.
 
 I appreciate that you are trying to motivate them but I am afraid that
 such a mail to the gimp-developer list isn't really helpful at all.

I honestly hoped for an answer. The feedback I've gotten from the
web team recently says it's ready to go. scizzo thought it was
going to move a couple of weeks ago, and Raphael has said several
times (most recently in response to a mail from mitch here) that
he doesn't know what is holding it up, and he feels it's ready
for a switch. 

So as far as I can tell, the web team is waiting for the switch
to happen. I am honestly interested in knowing why it hasn't. I
certainly didn't intend to be confrontational, or unhelpful.

Cheers,
Dave.

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