[haiku-web] Re: Renaming mailing list before R1
- From: "Dennis d'Entremont" <dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:18:55 -0300
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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.
I would most likely be able to volunteer some time to help test a site
migration. I too think it would be a good idea to upgrade soon rather than
later, so long as it's properly planned :)
>
>
> N.
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