FreeLists / haiku-web / [haiku-web] Re: Trac migration to AccountManager

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Curtis Wanner" <katisu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel wrote:
> > Not sure if I understand what you're saying, but in the long run, 
> > if we
> > intend to keep our user databases separate, we definitely should 
> > have
> > some mechanism to synchronize them automatically from time to time.
> Well, this is the issue.  If they are located on separate servers, do 
> we
> really want Trac to depend on the other server being up and 
> accessible?  Do
> we really want to swap user data back and forth over the internet?  
> Do we
> really want to rely on a mechanism that will likely be broken with an
> upgrade in software?  All this so that someone doesn't have to take a 
> few
> seconds to register?

Yes, I do want that. If the databases are mirrored on different 
servers, there is no dependency. You need to swap user data over the 
internet anyway, it doesn't matter between which server that happens.
And the only way to make something really reliable, is by making it 
redundant, not separate, anyway.
I don't quite see why this mechanism will likely be broken by a 
software update either - it *might* need a little love with every major 
update (every two years or so??), but that doesn't sound like ooh so 
much work to me.

Bye,
   Axel.

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