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

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 3/21/24 19:46, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 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.

Seconded.

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