[haiku-web] Re: Renaming mailing list before R1

Hello,

2008/8/26 Jorge Mare <kokitomare@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Gavin James <gavin.james@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>>> 2008/8/19 Austin Bales <arbales@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Does haiku presently used shared hosting? It might be worth investigating
>>>> low-cost VPS (a la slicehost) since Haiku's web presence and network 
>>>> demands
>>>> continue to grow.
>>>
>>> Hosting is currently not an issue. We will move to another host before
>>> October, but this has to be coordinated a bit more. When the alpha 1
>>> discussion dies out (a little bit), I will activate this topic.
>>
>> I offered to do this a few months back and I'm certainly still willing
>> to do it. I've moved the Drupal installation before so I'm well aware
>> of what needs to be done as well as the likely issues.
>>
>> Regardless of who does it I'd strongly suggest it's done either well
>> before the release of alpha 1 of well after. With October pretty much
>> being a fixed deadline (that's when the WebFaction accounts are up for
>> renewal) it makes more sense to get it done now IMHO.
>
> I think what happened is that we were going to try to do the server
> migration and upgrade to Drupal 5.x at the same time. But it does not
> look like we are upgrading Drupal anytime soon, so we might as well do
> the server migration and get over with it first (that way we can kiss
> WF goodbye!). IIRC, we will have to migrate the email (to Gmail?),
> right?

I would like to gently disagree about not upgrading Drupal soon. The
test migration I did a while back, which can be found at
http://experimental.web.haiku-os.org/, is pretty good. It needs some
polishing, but basically the data and the functionality migrate.
Things to do are:
- I found two instances where we lose some data.
- Several modules have not yet been enabled again (such as the phpbb module).
- The theme still needs some minor tweaks: the one on the main website
evolved since I did the port. I would suggest actually doing the
development of the theme in the mercurial repository in order to keep
track of the changes.

So basically I imagined it like this: I'd suggest I fix the last known
issues in the theme. Then we plan a weekend where we do the migration.
I'd suggest just finding a web of volunteers that try the migrated
site and through an IRC channel communicate with a few of us admins so
we can touch up the site where needed.

N.
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