Decommissioning Trac (svn.boost.org)
We have Trac in read-only mode after we migrated to Git, but we're still paying for the server. Do people still want to preserve any part of the content in some way? The wiki aside, there are old issues, with comments, and some of them have patches attached. Peter had the idea of generating static HTML content from Trac and hosting that on an archive section on boost.org. (I don't know how difficult this is to do). Thoughts? Suggestions? Glen
On 10/25/22 02:46, Glen Fernandes via Boost wrote:
We have Trac in read-only mode after we migrated to Git, but we're still paying for the server.
Do people still want to preserve any part of the content in some way?
The wiki aside, there are old issues, with comments, and some of them have patches attached.
Peter had the idea of generating static HTML content from Trac and hosting that on an archive section on boost.org. (I don't know how difficult this is to do).
Thoughts? Suggestions?
I don't think patches are relevant nowdays. I'd expect the code base to have gone ahead quite significantly from what it was back when the patches were created. However, there are likely links to some Trac issues in code, docs and commit messages. Those are useful for background, rationale and history, and is probably the only thing of value we have in Trac. It would be nice if we could keep those links working. Not the end of the world if we can't, though.
-----Original Message----- From: Boost <boost-bounces@lists.boost.org> On Behalf Of Glen Fernandes via Boost Sent: 25 October 2022 00:47 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Glen Fernandes <glen.fernandes@gmail.com> Subject: [boost] Decommissioning Trac (svn.boost.org)
We have Trac in read-only mode after we migrated to Git, but we're still paying for the server.
Do people still want to preserve any part of the content in some way?
The wiki aside, there are old issues, with comments, and some of them have patches attached.
Peter had the idea of generating static HTML content from Trac and hosting that on an archive
There is much history in Trac, especially in Boost.Math documentation, and many links to items in Trac recording difficulties, resolutions, rationale etc, so it would be a pity to lose these. If some way of redirecting these links to a static HTML can be found at reasonable cost and difficulty, this would be ideal. Paul section on
boost.org. (I don't know how difficult this is to do).
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Glen
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Another way to put this: is anyone interested in keeping this enough that they'd be willing to put in the work to migrate this stuff to another server and get all that working? On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 6:10 AM Paul A Bristow via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
There is much history in Trac, especially in Boost.Math documentation, and many links to items in Trac recording difficulties, resolutions, rationale etc, so it would be a pity to lose these.
If some way of redirecting these links to a static HTML can be found at reasonable cost and difficulty, this would be ideal.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: Boost <boost-bounces@lists.boost.org> On Behalf Of Glen Fernandes via Boost Sent: 25 October 2022 00:47 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Glen Fernandes <glen.fernandes@gmail.com> Subject: [boost] Decommissioning Trac (svn.boost.org)
We have Trac in read-only mode after we migrated to Git, but we're still paying for the server.
Do people still want to preserve any part of the content in some way?
The wiki aside, there are old issues, with comments, and some of them have patches attached.
Peter had the idea of generating static HTML content from Trac and hosting that on an archive section on boost.org. (I don't know how difficult this is to do).
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Glen
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Hi, We chatted about this briefly in Slack last week. I am working on mirroring the website svn.boost.org using "wget --mirror". This copies all the dynamic content as simple static files. The mirror took a long time, multiple days, although the total content was around 27GB. Now the issue is to debug some of the details, such as question marks in filenames, international character sets, conflicting file and directory names. So, the task is ongoing. On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:08 AM David Sankel via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Another way to put this: is anyone interested in keeping this enough that they'd be willing to put in the work to migrate this stuff to another server and get all that working?
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 6:10 AM Paul A Bristow via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
There is much history in Trac, especially in Boost.Math documentation, and many links to items in Trac recording difficulties, resolutions, rationale etc, so it would be a pity to lose these.
If some way of redirecting these links to a static HTML can be found at reasonable cost and difficulty, this would be ideal.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: Boost <boost-bounces@lists.boost.org> On Behalf Of Glen Fernandes via Boost Sent: 25 October 2022 00:47 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Glen Fernandes <glen.fernandes@gmail.com> Subject: [boost] Decommissioning Trac (svn.boost.org)
We have Trac in read-only mode after we migrated to Git, but we're still paying for the server.
Do people still want to preserve any part of the content in some way?
The wiki aside, there are old issues, with comments, and some of them have patches attached.
Peter had the idea of generating static HTML content from Trac and hosting that on an archive section on boost.org. (I don't know how difficult this is to do).
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Glen
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On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, Sam Darwin wrote:
Hi, We chatted about this briefly in Slack last week. I am working on mirroring the website svn.boost.org using "wget --mirror". This copies all the dynamic content as simple static files. The mirror took a long time, multiple days, although the total content was around 27GB. Now the issue is to debug some of the details, such as question marks in filenames, international character sets, conflicting file and directory names. So, the task is ongoing.
Many thanks (as always), Sam. Glen
The boost trac server has been shut down (but can still be turned on at this point). If there are no issues over the next few days, I'll decommission the server.
A cloned copy of the boost trac server is running trac.cpp.al. And, if a CNAME is created, and we sort out the Let's Encrypt certificate, it should be back up at the same URL. On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 3:37 PM David Sankel via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
The boost trac server has been shut down (but can still be turned on at this point). If there are no issues over the next few days, I'll decommission the server.
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