[Box-Admins] Re: squeaksource.com mail disabled (was: box3.squeak.org off line)

[Chris Muller]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:54 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 04:07:47PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:06:09PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:42 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Outbound mail notification from squeaksource.com is disabled, so that
>> > > should not have been a concern.
>> >
>> > Which switch are you referring to that is "disabled"?  Did you check
>> > SSProject>>#versionAdded:?  For the path of someone saving a version,
>> > it _unconditionally_ sends out mail to all subscribers, there is no
>> > single switch to disable that..
>> >
>>
>> I found was some attribute that I set false, which seems to control it globally.
>>
>
> For the record - the mail delivery in the squeaksource.com image is controlled by
> SSEMailSubscription class>>enabled:

Ok, thanks for the detail.  The image which runs source.squeak.org
does not have that flag at all.

So, it must be some other forked Process that accumulated..

> I have it set false now. If true or nil, the system will attempt to send mail.
>
> Another global setting of interest is allowRegisterProject. This is an attribute
> in the SSRepository, and is currently set to false, as has been the case since
> earlier this year. If we want to permit new project creation, this setting
> can be changed. But I think that should be a board decision, for consideration
> only after we are confident that the system is stable and maintainable.

The board has discussed it and the consensus was that not only should
registerNewProject be disabled, but the whole thing should be made
read-only -- not even new versions of existing projects.  This allows
the original SS to become be an "archive" and forcing living projects
to migrate to SqueakSource3 or SmalltalkHub.