Thanks Michael! On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:28:31AM -0500, Michael Pedersen wrote: > Okay, so this one is getting out somewhat later than planned. Technically, I > think it's Mar 8 before it leaves my editor. However, since i started it on > the 7th, and I'm going by gamer's rules (I didn't sleep yet, so it's not > tomorrow!), it's sent as of the 7th. > > The past week has actually been a pretty busy one. Add in some of the extra > work that got done tonight, and getting this out later looks like it can be > excused. > > *What Got Done? > * > > - Google Summer of Code application to be an organization mentor has been > filed. This required setting myself up on the site. Turns out that anybody > wishing to be a mentor also needs to hop into the site and get themselves > set up. More on this below. > - We've been working with Mark Ramm and SF itself. Thanks to some of the > way we've been doing things, we helped them find some minor problems in the > way the git repositories were being displayed. As of now, they've fixed > those problems, and Mark tells me they've added additional monitoring to > prevent the problems occurring for others. I'd like to extend thanks to > Mark > for doing this. > - Doing a direct migration of Trac into SF's system, as it turns out, was > not feasible. We've created a turbogears2 project to house the tracker and > code repositories already. The tracker has received some basic > configuration > as well. More may be desirable, but we should be able to begin migration. > More on this below, as well. > - We're transitioning the turbogears.org whois itself. This will relieve > Kevin of having to deal with DNS updates. Kevin, thank you for your trust. > We'll take good care of TG. If we're really lucky, we'll do well enough > that > you want to work with us on it full time again. > - A couple of minor updates to the repositories have allowed us to begin > moving forward. Future installations, for instance, will become as easy as > 'easy_install TurboGears2'. > - Florent and Christoph have been working steadily on the new server. > > *Where Are We Now?* > As you can see from above, what has been a semi-slow transition has gotten > almost alarmingly quick this week. We got a lot accomplished, and the next > two weeks promise to see even more. > > For the Google Summer of Code application, we now need mentors to step up > and sign in. Go to > http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/userguide#depth_createswpand > get your GSoC profile created. Assuming we are accepted, we'll be > ready > for the next step, which is attaching mentors to our organization. For those > of you who are curious, you can check out > http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/userguide#depth_mentapplyfor > the details. > > Over at SF, we've got a project created for TG2, and it's at > https://sourceforge.net/p/turbogears2/home/ . The tracker looks like it > manages to provide most of the same configuration options as we had for Trac > (now that I've plugged those fields in). Our goal for now is to start SF > with a clean slate, and actually separate TG1 and TG2 into individual > projects. > > The new server is pretty much feature complete. We just need to enable it in > DNS, and let people start poking at it. > > *What Are We Doing This Week?* > We're going to manually migrate tickets to SF from Trac. The number that we > have is not large, so we should be able to pretty easily manage the > migration for at least TG2 this week. > > The DNS changes, assuming the registrars in question don't manage to muck > things up, will start being visible by Friday. > > *What's In The Future?* > That's right, a new segment, and this one isn't as happy. This week I'll > have some free time to continue devoting to TG. From Mar 14 through Mar 25, > though, is suspect at best. We're rolling out a new POS system at work on > Mar 21, and I'm one of the people responsible for the technical backend > support. I don't know how much time I'll have to devote to TG during that > timeframe. I hope it will continue as it has, and let me have a fair amount > of free time at night, but I don't know it will. I'll still post this > status, even if all I can do is say "OMGWTFBBQ". Hopefully it won't be that > bad. > > -- > 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" 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?hl=en. >
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