On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:43:36 PM UTC+2, RjOllos wrote: > A few of us had a brief email exchange with the trac-hacks server admin > about the site being down. He is currently on vacation and can't do > anything to bring the server online until August 27th when he'll be able to > get onsite and fix the issue. > At that point, we'll be discussing what can be done in the future to avoid > a situation like this again. I'm not sure if that might include alernative > hosting for trac-hacks. >
Server/service downtime is just an unavoidable aspect og hosting, and no doubt there will be pros and cons regardless of what we do. No guarantees. Mike & helpers have done a terrific job keeping it running for many years, but ironically that change was also partly due to an extended blackout during a personal holiday... Hardware, networks, software, companies and people cannot always work. Particularly remembering that everything around Trac is based on voluntary labour and run on shoestring budgets. However; to add to the possible options for Trac-Hacks, I would like to propose moving it to the Edgewall infrastructure. There we can manage it in much the same way as we do for the other projects - including Trac, Genshi and Babel. Current maintainers are welcome to continue their efforts there, but will additionally be able to also utilize others if needed. I have had a brief initial exchange with Jonas, Christian and Remy about this, and they are all positive to the idea of bringing the Hacks/Plugins site closer to the Trac project itself. Plugins are important for nearly all Trac installations, and judging by the level of plugin-related tickets and mailing list discussions it is quite clear that most users regard it as two sides of the same coin. Keeping the projects closer together, we as developers are more likely to remember this as well. Additionally Trac-Hacks poses some interesting challenges and possibilities with regards to its extensive multiproject/multiproject aspects, so perhaps this will also be a great opportunity to re-think and improve some of the site features - hopefully done by improving Trac itself whenever feasible. I know this thought process is started already, so I look forward to reading though these ideas again - as soon as the wiki is back up again ;-) :::simon https://www.coderesort.com/u/simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/trac-users/-/zhoPHzmTKAEJ. 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.
