[Lightningbug-devel] dirt status/potential upgrades

[Daniel K. G. <dk...@fi...>]

hey LB folks--

i know dirt isn't used very much these days.  we've often talked about
shutting down the site, but somehow, no one has come up with a
time/plan for doing so.  I'm not about to do that in this e-mail.

But in the coming weeks, as debian's next release nears stability, i'd
like use dirt as a guinea pig for the upgrade process from sarge to
etch.  The worst possible consequence would probably be for the
upgrade process to damage or destroy user data on that machine.  In
this extremely unlikely event, we might even lose access to the
machine for a little while.

So: please make sure if you have any data on dirt that you want to
keep, you've got a backup somewhere.  I'll back up the svn repository
and the cc.org database myself, so you don't need to worry about those
pieces.

If you have any strong objections to my using dirt this way (or you
have data you want me to back up that you can't get to for some
reason), please let me know.  If you think this is a fine idea, please
also let me know (i'm not sure if posting to this list is yelling into
the abyss or not).

Further e-mails about an eventual repurposing of dirt (what should
happen to cc.org?) are welcome.  But in the meantime, i'd like to test
the upgrade process on a real, configured, burned-in sarge machine
(for my own sake, and to contribute reports to the debian project),
and dirt seems like a low-risk place for that to me.

Regards,

	--dkg