[Box-Admins] Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Seaside] SqueakSource/Seaside question - has anyone seen this problem before?

[Frank Shearar]

Hm, I thought Tobias meant "run source.squeak.org's image with SS3
code" rather than "move source.squeak.org's code to the SS3 servers".

Which would address your concerns about external/internal projects,
and the need to self-host.

frank

On 14 January 2014 00:09, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> SS3 is already up and running, and all projects which are still alive
> in 2014 and care to do so have moved their individual projects to SS3.
>  That's a perfect fit for its place in the universe.
>
> I think attempting to cram the rest of the old squeaksource.com model
> en masse would be a big mistake.
>
> SS3 is great for external projects.  I have all of mine there now.
> But it has had issues in the past which are left to the mercy of
> Dale's and Tobias' availability.  I personally think Squeak needs
> incentive to stay fit, at least enough to self-host its own code for
> source.squeak.org.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:36 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Tobias Pape wrote:
>>>
>>> On 14.01.2014, at 00:00, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> It seems clear (as previously noted) that we really need to update our
>>> >> source.squeak.org and squeaksource.com images to use an up to date Seaside.
>>> >
>>> > A prerequisite to that is to update our source.squeak.org and
>>> > squeaksource.com images to be 4.5 images.
>>> >
>>> > Just FYI -- I've done with the source.squeak.org backup on box4.  It's
>>> > running the code which is committed to the "ss" repository of
>>> > source.squeak.org (so, self hosting its own code) in a 2-month old
>>> > trunk image.
>>> >
>>> > A future step to update Seaside in there would be nice.
>>>
>>> Or, y'know, just upgrade to SS3 in the forseable future?
>>>
>>
>> This is going to sound ignorant because it is ... would it be feasible
>> to move the current squeaksource.com repository onto SS3 and keep it
>> running as if (from the user point of view) nothing had happened?
>>
>> My goal for squeaksource.com is to keep it reliable and available as a
>> resource to the community. I updated it to match the code base for
>> source.squeak.org for that reason only. If the repository could be
>> moved to SS3 to provide a more reliable system, that might be a very
>> good thing.
>>
>> The only thing from my personal point of view is that I cannot put a
>> great deal of time into development or changes to the system. I just
>> want squeaksource.com to work and be reliable, that is all.
>>
>> Dave
>>