[OpenWalnut-Dev] Server failures

[Alexander Wiebel]

Hi,
for those who did not participate in the discussion:

We will stick to redmine for the near future.

Cheers
Alex

On 10/05/2012 09:13 AM, Mathias Goldau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as some of you might have noticed, that our website was down last day, I
> want to apologize for any inconveniences. The reasons for this was
> mainly to update our server. Although I made a small mistake with some
> upgrading of (in fact) locked packages, the new Redmine version migrated
> its database into Nirvana, left us with incompatible plugins and tons of
> server errors, although the upgrade was between minor releases (1.3.1 to
> 1.4.4). So far the basic website functionality is back online, HTH.
> 
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> 
> For the "long" run, I kindly ask for support to: SWITCH BACK TO TRAC!
> 
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> 
> Explanation:
> As I were the driving force behind migration from Trac to Redmine it may
> sound strange to switch back as there were reasons which let us switch
> to Redmine. Those were:
>  * Trac development (framework + plugins) didn't released new versions
> for some years, so it was not clear if project has been died or not.
>  * Redmine promised newer plugins better work-flow and more features and
> a much more active community.
> 
> What I didn't knew at this time, was, that the Redmine package for
> Debian based systems is broken together with Redmine's update policies,
> as some of the features which Trac had must be solved inside of the
> applications source code. And, which struggles me most, Backup of the
> whole application. In Trac this was a one-liner, so if same happened
> yesterday to our Trac instance, I would have been able to play back
> backups much easier and faster.
> Another problem, which is very serious, is, that plugins became orphan
> and even the old repositories have disappeared. This is why we won't get
> back our old behaviour, e.g. Youtube plugin, and many other plugins (in
> summary at least 5) are not working and their source code is lost (dead
> links).
> Last but not least, Trac is not dead, they released 1.0 some months ago.
> 
> So this is not the first time I most definitely regret the decision to
> switch to Redmine. As we should be visible at VisWeek with an intact
> website, I kindly demand a fast decision.
> 
> Mathias
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