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

Any solution?


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
>>
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