[Po4a-devel] Alioth is closing, po4a needs a new home very soon

[Brian Exelbierd]

Hi All,

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 8:09 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 09:32:14AM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > On Jan 30, 2018, at 8:16, Martin Quinson <martin.quinson at ens-rennes.fr> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I certainly hope for others to jump into that van and request the
> > > > write access to help with the current migration and future
> > > > maintainance of the project :) 
> > > > 
> > > > Please guys, don't be shy and come help us. This is an open project,
> > > > after all.
> > > 
> > > I can certainly help a bit.
> > > 
> > > So, we have to:
> > > 
> > > 1) move the web site
> > 
> > We have to have a space where to put it in. Any suggestion?
> > Buying a little space is not a big issue though.
> 
> We have space now.  I haven't had a moment to build the site and test it 
> at the new location.  I owe the system administrator and SSH key which I 
> intend to email today.  Assuming he gets it installed, I hope to push a 
> test publication today as well.

Sorry it took a few extra days.  I have uploaded the site to https://www.po4a.org/

This was heavily reliant on the hardwork of Duck, a community sysadmin with Red Hat.

I believe the site is working.  A linkchecker revealed what appears to be the same broken links as the original site (baby steps).

Please beat up on this.  I will open a PR with the changes required to get this work.  We should consider updating content links as they are ready.

> 
> > > 2) move the issues
> > 
> > This could be tricky. I suggest to just "snapshot" the issues with
> > something like wget or curl and then re-create the opened issues and
> > preserve the old one as a static block.
> 
> I think anything we can do to get this data out is useful.  Can anyone 
> take this one?

Anyone? Anyone?

> > > 3) move the list
> > 
> > Issues and list could be created on launchpad. Are there any objections
> > to this?
> 
> We have a new list location on the new domain.  Martin, per the last 
> email I saw, is trying to recover access to our current list so we can 
> effect a migration.

I'll let Duck and Martin chime in here.

regards,

bex