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

Marty Vance <[email protected]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:12:27 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.xaraya.devel
Organization Xaraya
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Banzai wrote:

> Any solution?
> 
> 

We have a tenative solution, a plan should be finalized this week.

> Marty Vance wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>