Re: [Lightningbug-devel] dirt status/potential upgrades

[Jamie M. <jm...@ma...>]

On Mon Nov 20, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 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.

No prob. FYI - the MonkeyFunk offsite back continues to run - which backs up
the entire database, and everything that is world readable in /home/cvsroot,
/home/svnroot, and /opt. Not do say that you shouldn't make another backup
though!


> 
> 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).

Yes - I'd love to hear your experiences!

> 
> 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.

I think we should move cc to a static single html page on one of our shared
servers and re-purpose dirt as a backup server for the us social forum (which
should eventually be a dedicated server imho).

jamie



> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	--dkg
> 
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