Re: [Firebird-website] [Firebird-general] Re: Fb Website

[Pavel C. <pc...@ib...>]

Lester Caine napsal(a):
> 
> My main machine is over in Germany and I have no problem maintaining it from the 
> UK. If the current machine is a bottleneck I have more than enough space to add 
> another site, and unlimited bandwidth.

The problem is not in the machine. Actually, it works quite well, and
occasional issues were always resolved "quickly" (there is some lag as
Sean is in different time zone than most of us). Having someone closely
related to the project in site to take care of it when necessary is also
important. The website VM has no issues and require no maintenance in
current setup, and any infrastructure upgrades wouldn't be any issue
either as we don't use anything fancy besides Apache and PHP. The
problem is JIRA VM. Again, the VM works ok, but due to all these fancy
technologies used, it's very hard to maintain it (especially when one is
no Java/Tomcat wizard). My point is that we want to keep the website
simple and a breeze to work with, as there is no real reason to go
JIRA-route with it.

> Perhaps at some point we can even integrate the tracker and considerably 
> simplify maintaining that as well ;) ( I did offer to provide that via bw's 
> tracker before it was changed! )

Actually, the tracker itself works quite well (although it's not a speed
daemon). However, it's not easy to tinker with its setup and nobody
would dare to play with it directly and risk that he would break so
important project facility. We really depend heavily on our tracker, and
we can't afford to take it down for more than few hours.

> In the meantime the how about using the facilities that do exist rather than 
> 'creating a wiki with drafts and roadmap' - just use the existing wiki ? People 
> may find they like it :)

I'm all for using existing facilities :) Will take a look on its current
state and we'll see how far it would go.

best regards
Pavel Cisar