[GeneralDiscussion200801]

From SimonMichael Mon Jan 7 07:25:33 -0800 2008
From: Simon Michael
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:25:33 -0800
Subject: greetings
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

Happy new year all. I've just returned from a visit to Ireland, where  
I had a wonderful time (visited family, drank guinness in Matt  
Molloy's, climbed a mountain, stayed in a castle, jumped in a lake to  
start the new year..)

I haven't been active with Zwiki development for some months, having  
been focussed on consulting projects, but I am currently working on  
some sysadmin tasks, which you should know in case there are glitches.  
I'm moving domains to dyndns and sites to slicehost. Aktiom was good  
but slicehost looks better; I can run ubuntu gutsy, and I can get eg  
512mb ram for $30/mo ($45 with backups). I've just finished  
configuring apache and breaking up my ancient crufty apache2.conf  
(hurrah!)


On the new server I hope to be able to host, develop and test more  
effectively and complete (or burn! :/ ) the all-unicode branch, among  
other things. We'll see what the year brings for Zwiki and indeed Zope  
2, 3, Grok, Plone and all.

I wish you a peaceful and fulfilling 2008! See you online.


From betabug Tue Jan 8 23:54:55 -0800 2008
From: betabug
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:54:55 -0800
Subject: greetings
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Happy new year and welcome back Simon! Looks like you had a really good time in Ireland! The sysadmin stuff looks promising. Best wishes for a good 2008 from me too!

From SimonMichael Fri Jan 18 08:38:14 -0800 2008
From: Simon Michael
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:38:14 -0800
Subject: darcs patch: 1397 - fix revert by re-adding setVotes.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On with the patches!

| Sat Dec 22 02:07:04 EET 2007  [email protected]
|  * 1397 - fix revert by re-adding setVotes.
|  While rebuilding the rating/voting mechanism I had deleted setVotes()
|  since revert() wants to use setVotes() to reset the votes, reverting
|  resulted in an ugly traceback.

Thanks for this, applied. I had trouble applying it due to a darcs  
bug, but pulling it from your repo worked fine. It will go live on  
zwiki.org when I restart that in a little bit.


From SimonMichael Sat Jan 19 12:20:11 -0800 2008
From: Simon Michael
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:20:11 -0800
Subject: darcs patch: Added some functional tests. (and 1 more)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Yay, tests! Applied.



From simon Sat Jan 19 12:47:12 -0800 2008
From: simon
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:47:12 -0800
Subject: server trouble
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

The server (and all sites) has been restarting much more frequently since the middle of last week. I suspect some new bot traffic. I raised the memory limit a little and am working on the move to a new server.

From SimonMichael Mon Jan 21 18:48:20 +0000 2008
From: Simon Michael
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:48:20 +0000
Subject: sites moved
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

| Date: January 19, 2008 2:06:19 PM PST
| Subject: we are moving!
|
| I have changed dns records for joyful.com and zwiki.org. You may  
| want to hold off on edits for a bit.

Well, this was the bumpiest upgrade ever.

Sites are now finally running on the new server, after a day or two of  
downtime. I'm very sorry about the outage to the wikis. I assumed this  
move would be straightforward, didn't realize I was dealing with a new  
apache version, rushed it, got busy offline, and had to dig quite hard  
to find what was causing sites to hang after a couple of requests (a  
combination of apache and zope config issues).

I now have 512M of ram to play with (up from 256) and a modern ubuntu  
gutsy system. All sites should be running better than before, aside  
from a few remaining things being resolved (darcsweb). Other problem  
reports are welcome. I'll be doing more tuning as needed.

So, basically, good news! Thanks and happy new year to all!


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