Mike, look at the answer I did regarding server hosting a few minutes ago (sorry for the cross thread posting) and what we already have :)
I think it may be of interest to us... Florent On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Michael Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Watching the ebb and flow of the list is actually interesting. Today almost > seems like the list was holding its breath. Yesterday, there was activity, > today it was quiet. > > Folks, I'm not Moses. You are very much allowed to talk; I'm not issuing > commandments from on high :) > > Now, on to the weekly update: > > What got done? > This was actually a fairly productive week I'm pleased with the overall > results: > > We've started using a new tool to help with planning: > http://turbogears.flow.io/ It's a very simple, easy to use tool, and helps > us keep some sort of focus on what's being done now, and what's coming up > next. If you want to join that board, please speak with me. We can get you > set up fairly easily. > I've managed to implement a fix for trac ticket #2336 and upload it to git. > It's visible on SF.net right now. It's also visible on github, where I'm > keeping my fork of the repository. As I complete tickets, I'll upload the > resulting repository to SF. > We've run into some significant hiccups with the current SF offerings for > hosting. More details below. > We've heard from Shining Panda, a company that is working on providing a > continuous integration offering for Python developers. Hopefully, we can use > their service when it comes out. > > Where are we now? > I'm thinking we're at a crossroads with SF. Under the pylonsproject > umbrella, we're running into noticeable issues. Hosted Trac is downlevel, > importing tickets into hosted Trac is far from easy, git sometimes gives > permissions issues when I try to upload to there, and getting a useable > front page that won't step on the Pyramid developers toes has to wait until > they can create a front page, and then we can take a subdirectory under > there (or two, one for TG1 and TG2). > > We need to migrate away from the current setup, as we're using resources > that were supposed to be temporarily granted, but we're not making moves to > stop using them. SF looks like it will, eventually, be the right home for > us, but I don't think we can wait. I'm thinking we need to get a new VPS > setup and working, and migrate there. Once the systems are all in place for > us to make a smooth migration to SF, we can do so. Right now, though, I > think we need to look at switching VPSes. I want to be off of Webfaction > (not because I don't like them, I do, I just don't want to abuse their > generosity) before the middle of March. > > It's also time to look at the Google Summer of Code. The deadline for the > application is March 7, and I can think of a bunch of projects to put on the > list. Chris Perkins has already expressed a willingess to mentor. I'm > definitely going to volunteer. Do we have any other volunteers? And any > project ideas? I'll list mine below. > > What will be done this coming week? > I'm trying to avoid doing too much code type work while we try to get > through the migration. As such, my main focus this week will be on GSoC. I'm > going to get the application, get the projects and mentors listed, and get > things moving there. Hopefully we get accepted, and get some students who > want to work with us. I'd like that, anyway. > > My project ideas? A user management extension, a git repository extension, a > config extension, a CMS, a blog extension, possibly a replacement for > repoze.who/repose.what, too. Oh, a new "reference" application, too, > something to help show off what TG can really do. In my case, the idea is > for a program to handle all media types: text, video, and picture, and do so > in one unified interface. I think that would be something useful that even I > would use. > > That's just off the top of my head. What other ideas abound? And who will > mentor? > > That's the wrapup for now. The gears are turning again: Don't let them stop! > > -- > Michael J. Pedersen > My IM IDs: Jabber/[email protected], ICQ/103345809, AIM/pedermj022171 > Yahoo/pedermj2002, MSN/[email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TurboGears Trunk" 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/turbogears-trunk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" 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/turbogears-trunk?hl=en.
