Scheduled maintenance of LyX servers (Mar 21, 2024) [done]

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:42:13PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 10:23:40AM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > we plan to do the major transition of our web infrastructure soon.
> 
> We are done with the transition.
> 
> Basic summary:
> 
> - ftp server for wiki (not the ftp.lyx.org) is deceased.
>   For uploading material use wiki-uploads.git, all developers have rw access.
>   We need to do proxy for users, but I haven't seen this usage in past years,
>   so we are probably fine with that solution.
> 
> - svn server is deceased.
>   dictionary repo moved to dictionaries.git, all devs have rw access.
>   www-user repo moved to www-user.git, previous contributors have rw access.
> 
> - www.lyx.org should work very similarly as before.
> 
> - wiki.lyx.org - there will be more changes here. Many modules seen updates,
>   some modules do no exist anymore/no one updated for new PHP. I tried to fix
>   the most flagrant cases, but I'm sure some corners won't work. 
> 
> - bug tracker (lyx.org/trac) - updated to the most recent version, some
>   UI changes, but it should feel familiar. Few plugins were not ported
>   to new python and do not work anymore - most notable keywords.
>   We allow users to register again, let's see how that goes.
>   Gmail often refuses traffic from trac, JMarc has ambition to spin full
>   fledged mailing service with bells and whistles demanded by google
>   at some moment.
>   
> 
> I'll update relevant descriptions on our web/wiki to reflect the changes
> in the coming days + smaller polishing left out.
> If something does not work, please report back, we may or may not fix it ;)
> 
> This was a long ride, thanks JMarc for beating the trac dragon :)

Thanks a lot to both of you! I don't imagine that was fun, but it certainly was very important.

Scott
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