Richard Lyman wrote: > On 11/6/07, Noah Kantrowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How about we just wait the 2 hours for an admin to notice and kick >> apache in the head? >> >> I think this is being seriously over-thought. If people need the code >> for plugins, it should all be available on PyPI as a "mirror" (assuming >> the author was wise enough to push copies there). >> > > > Over thought? Today makes 2 out of the 3 times I've tried to > 'show-off' trac hacks and it's been down. All three have been to > separate groups where I was advocating the use of Trac. Extensibility > through plugins are a life-line. We need a solution that doesn't keep > putting kinks in that line. > > All I care about are the plugins themselves and especially the > directions on installing and setting up each plugin. > > What the owner of trac-hacks is doing for the community is fantastic - > we just need to have a good solution in place to help support the > existing effort. > Agreed, the plugins on trac-hacks are super important to the usefulness of trac for many people, no doubt. A well-known/linked mirror or even better an easily changeable DNS record would be ideal so that plugins can always be downloaded (or the downloads can be fixed quickly) regardless of the status of the primary trac-hacks server.
On the other hand, I understand that trac-hacks has undergone some changes recently (moved to a new machine I believe?) and therefore understand how this downtime can happen and am grateful for those maintaining the service. Best, Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
