Wiki Migration Pending

Wiki Migration Pending

[Chris Miller]

To give you some heads-up, I'm migrating web hosts, and so there will
be some downtime for the to-do list as it stands on the wiki (if it's
still in use - I haven't been paying much attention to it recently).
I'm migrating to a Virtual Private Server, and I'm expecting downtimes
of about three hours.  Absolute worst-case scenario is about two weeks
of downtime, though I have a plan that *should* circumvent that.

I am thinking about not installing the wiki on the VPS system, since
it seems to do a good job of collecting spam.  I will, however, have a
tool called GForge(1) on the site.  I will be using it to track my own
projects, though kernel janitors are perfectly welcome to use it if
you want.  It has a built-in wiki, though it also has a tracking
system (for bug reports and to-do list items), which I would think
would make it a better tool for the job.  Unfortunately, I haven't
been able to do hardly any kernel hacking, so I'm not very qualified
at all to make that kind of a decision.

If you're really adverse to the idea of using something other than
MediaWiki I can try to install it on the new VPS system, that's no
problem either.  It's just a bit harder for me, since this is the
first time I've really had to configure all this software from the
ground up.

I'm expecting to start the migration within two to three weeks, and I
will keep backups of everything from the old site - just in case.

Aside from the inconvenience, the good news is that the new site will
not be anywhere near as slow as the current one.  The shared server
I'm on is incredibly overloaded, and because of policy issues it's
impossible to make it better.  The VPS host is also connected to
Internap, which - in my experience - is a really fast network, so the
site should be even more responsive.

Thanks for your patience, and have a nice day!

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Re: Wiki Migration Pending

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:29:22PM -0700, Chris Miller wrote:
> I am thinking about not installing the wiki on the VPS system, since
> it seems to do a good job of collecting spam.  I will, however, have a
> tool called GForge(1) on the site.  I will be using it to track my own
> projects, though kernel janitors are perfectly welcome to use it if
> you want.  It has a built-in wiki, though it also has a tracking
> system (for bug reports and to-do list items), which I would think
> would make it a better tool for the job.  Unfortunately, I haven't
> been able to do hardly any kernel hacking, so I'm not very qualified
> at all to make that kind of a decision.
> 
> If you're really adverse to the idea of using something other than
> MediaWiki I can try to install it on the new VPS system, that's no
> problem either.  It's just a bit harder for me, since this is the
> first time I've really had to configure all this software from the
> ground up.

Since there's a mediawiki on kernel.org now, perhaps we should migrate
to using that instead.  Any thoughts?

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Re: Wiki Migration Pending

[Chris Miller]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:29:22PM -0700, Chris Miller wrote:
>  > I am thinking about not installing the wiki on the VPS system, since
>  > it seems to do a good job of collecting spam.  I will, however, have a
>  > tool called GForge(1) on the site.  I will be using it to track my own
>  > projects, though kernel janitors are perfectly welcome to use it if
>  > you want.  It has a built-in wiki, though it also has a tracking
>  > system (for bug reports and to-do list items), which I would think
>  > would make it a better tool for the job.  Unfortunately, I haven't
>  > been able to do hardly any kernel hacking, so I'm not very qualified
>  > at all to make that kind of a decision.
>  >
>  > If you're really adverse to the idea of using something other than
>  > MediaWiki I can try to install it on the new VPS system, that's no
>  > problem either.  It's just a bit harder for me, since this is the
>  > first time I've really had to configure all this software from the
>  > ground up.
>
>  Since there's a mediawiki on kernel.org now, perhaps we should migrate
>  to using that instead.  Any thoughts?

That's actually a very good idea.  The kernel site can deliver far
better uptime than my one-man IT circus can ever hope to provide.  I
can provide any migration dumps you need for the migration.

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