Re: retirement of host davinci (mt.xaraya.com)

Marcel van der Boom wrote:
> On Mon 02-Nov-2009 15:53
> mikespub <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ouch - thanks for the info. So what are the plans to continue working
>>on Xaraya in 4 weeks ? Preferably this should be done as
>>transparently as possible, so please don't suggest moving to
>>[whatever] other tool ;-)
>>
> 
> Until recently I thought the plans were to move davinci's services to a
> new machine and as such I kept the machine on life support. I'm not
> sure what exactly happened with the new machine, but Marty has the info
> on that I think.
> 
> 

In April we were given access to a new machine, and when nearly 
everything was ready (all it needed was an MTA installed),  the provider 
decided to reinstall it as a virtual server, then disappeared.

In short, we need to replace all of our hardware.  One modern machine 
would do us a lot of good.

>>Given the short time frame and the current status of development, I 
>>don't really feel like wasting months until all the issues are ironed 
>>out by switching to some 4th tool since I joined the project. Or is
>>that just me worrying for nothing about this ?
> 
> 
> I don't know if there are plans for moving to another tool or not. I've
> heard rumours about people using git. 
> Note that I am 'just an innocent bystander' in this, being
> completely out of sync with what happened recently.  
> 
> marcel
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