Box-Admins October 2006

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Re: wiki.squeak.org
by Ken Causey 23 May '07

23 May '07

That's a very good idea but not something I can implement since it must be done on minnow once the Swiki is shut down. Jochen, Mark: What Giovanni is getting at here is whether it is possible for minnow to report a 301 (Permanently Moved) reply pointing to http://wiki.squeak.org/ at least for http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/ once the content has been moved? By the way, is the intention to move just the /squeak/ section of the Swiki or the entire content? Ken Causey On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:18 +0100, Giovanni Giorgi wrote: > By the way you can give an hint to google. > When accessing to > http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/ > you can reply with a special http reply"Moved" > to redirect it to > http://wiki.squeak.org/ > The search engine will update itself in a snap. > Bye bye > > On 10/30/06, Ken Causey <ken(a)kencausey.com> wrote: > > I would like to suggest that the community get used to using > > http://wiki.squeak.org/ in preference to our usual > > http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/ . > > > > As has been correctly pointed out there is a long history in the search > > engines of minnow URLs and while it would be nice for those to continue > > to work in the long run, I don't think it is realistic that GA. Tech is > > going to want their hostname used on a server which they do not host or > > maintain. > > > > I think we simply need to face the reality that at some point we are > > going to lose that URL. To that end I suggest that we immediately begin > > using http://wiki.squeak.org/ in every case. > > > > I have it setup so that URLs like http://wiki.squeak.org/5888 are > > correctly redirected for now and once the Swiki is moved hopefully the > > same URLs will work later. > > > > Hopefully if we start using these URLs sooner than later the search > > engines will begin picking them up even before the use is necessary. > > Realistically we are going to have trouble with search engines for a > > long time to come, but it can only help to get started now. > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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Re: Swik -> box2?
by Cees De Groot 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi Jochen, You should be able to login now as 'wiki' on 'box2.squeakfoundation.org' Regards, Cees On 1/19/06, Jochen F. Rick <nadja(a)cc.gatech.edu> wrote: > OK. I'm attaching my SSH key. > > Peace and Luck! > > Jeff > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, PhD Candidate, Georgia Tech College of Computing > jochen.rick(a)cc.gatech.edu, http://www.je77.com/, work: 404-385-1105 > > >

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Re: Made 3.8.1 images
by Ken Causey 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:14 +0200, Michael Rueger wrote: > ...how to upload? Should we create a 3.8.1 folder? > > Michael > I've changed the ownership of all 3.8 and 3.9* ftp directories to the 'update' account so now you can simply modify them using the same account you use to add updates. Be sure to use the right patch of course. In this case '/var/www/files/3.8/'. Ken

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Adding/updating files in FTP (Re: other images)
by Ken Causey 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

I can offer two solutions to the issue of hosting images for various people (the FTP side of the problem anyway). 1. The web team takes responsibility for this (you already own the overall FTP directory) and anyone that wants an image hosted sends it to you or tells you where to get it from. This way the 'customer' has to work through the web team. In the past this hasn't worked so well since there hasn't often been more than 1-2 active members and there have been a couple of past instances (John McIntosh's Mac VM updates for example) where the team has not been very responsive to update requests. 2. A folder is created in the FTP site and under that folder there are seperate folders for each type of image and each of those is owned by the image developer. Each developer would have his/her own account on box2. This is much as I have already done for Damien and his Developer's image. I'm not too happy with the idea of creating and managaing a bunch of accounts and would prefer that we start with solution #1 and see how it goes. Maybe having a larger number of requests more often will result in a faster response time than in the past. If that doesn't work maybe I will come up with a third solution by the time we find out. Ken

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Re: Mailing list for the squeak documentation team
by Ken Causey 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Thanks Marcus! I certainly had no objection to this. In fact my personal opinion on anything like this that doesn't have the smell of controvery is to just go ahead and do it, notify everyone, and ask forgiveness if there are complaints after the fact. Ken On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:41 +0200, Marcus Denker wrote: > On 14.10.2006, at 04:58, Matthew Fulmer wrote: > > > Hi. I believe that there is a need for the documentation team to > > have a central place to discuss issues. A mailing list would be > > the best place I think. I know that a mailing list for two > > people may be overkill, but I hope that it will grow. Also, none > > of the existing lists on squeakfoundation seem appropriate, > > although webteam is close. > > > > Craig Latta told me that one of you two would know what to do. > > > > So, can we have a mailing list? > > Ok, I made a list (squeak-doc) with you as the admin >

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Fwd: Mailing list for the squeak documentation team
by Marcus Denker 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi, Just a short note that I will add a mailinglist for the doc team (if nobody objects violently) Marcus Begin forwarded message: > From: Matthew Fulmer <tapplek(a)gmail.com> > Date: 14. Oktober 2006 04:58:37 GMT+02:00 > To: Ken Causey <ken(a)kencausey.com>, Marcus Denker > <denker(a)iam.unibe.ch> > Subject: Mailing list for the squeak documentation team > > Hi. I believe that there is a need for the documentation team to > have a central place to discuss issues. A mailing list would be > the best place I think. I know that a mailing list for two > people may be overkill, but I hope that it will grow. Also, none > of the existing lists on squeakfoundation seem appropriate, > although webteam is close. > > Craig Latta told me that one of you two would know what to do. > > So, can we have a mailing list? > > -- > Matthew Fulmer

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Ping and quick report
by Ken Causey 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

My primary purpose in sending this message is just to confirm that everything is OK regarding the lists since squeak-dev has been quiet. Secondarily there have been a few small changes on the server in the last few days and I think I should probably notify the team although they are fairly minor. 1. For some unknown reason I found on Monday that the server had been rebooted some time around 05:00 UTC or so (rough estimate) if anyone knows anything about this I would like to hear it. 2. Related to this a few long running processes that we had all been lazy about failed to start. This included the processes for the squeak.org, wwwtest.squeak.org, and source.squeakfoundation.org. 3. I decided to take care of that myself and setup scripts and /service/ links for all 3 of these and now they are monitored by supervise and hopefully that particular issue won't come up again. 4. I added quick hostnames with redirects for wiki.squeak.org -> minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/ (in time when the swiki is moved this will be the true address probably) and news.squeak.org -> weeklysqueak.wordpress.com I guess that's it, all I can remember anyway. Ken

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Box-Admins Team Report for September, 2006
by Ken Causey 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on that server. In September we 1. Yakov Zaytsev built and began maintaining a QNX version of the Squeak VM and we set him up with an account and area within the Squeak FTP site to make the QNX VM and related files availablable. http://ftp.squeak.org/qnx/ 2. Helped manage the SVN repositories. 3. Helped with a GMANE issue. 4. Setup an account and area within the Squeak FTP site for the Developer's Image project. http://ftp.squeak.org/developers_image/ 5. Around the 26th or 27th all services stopped working rather suddenly due to a billing problem. As quickly as possible this issue was addressed but it took a few days for the servers to come back up. I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund these boxes and remind them that the bills continue to appear and that you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/ and clicking on the 'donate' button at the top right. Note that a donation here may be used for other Squeak Foundation services including but not limited to development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak. The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are not limited to): http://www.squeak.org/ SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/ http://ftp.squeak.org/ http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/ http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/ http://source.squeakfoundation.org/ http://map.squeak.org/ https://svn.squeak.org/ http://update.squeakfoundation.org/ and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names. Ken

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Re: Swik -> box2?
by Cees De Groot 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Good. I'm also cc'ing the box admins - anyone of us can help in the transfer. Shall we first announce it on squeak-dev? It probably means that we want to lock the swiki for a couple of hours while we are transferring it, might be polite to tell the community that beforehand. [box-admins: this is about moving the Squeak Swiki at Gatech over to box2]. Regards, Cees On 11/5/05, Mark Guzdial <guzdial(a)cc.gatech.edu> wrote: > I think that makes a lot of sense, Cees. I hope that we will continue > to do more Swiki development, but with Je77 graduating and no funding > for that effort, it makes sense to pass it on to people with funding in > their pockets.. > > Je77, can you work with Cees to move the Squeak Swiki to box2? > > Thanks! > Mark > > > Cees De Groot wrote: > > >Hi Mark, > > > >I'm not sure what the focus is for your group at the moment and > >whether running the Swiki poses any administrative loads. As you may > >know, box2 has been setup for the Squeak community in the broadest > >sense, and we currently have a nice team of volunteers managing > >everything. Money seems to be available as well, so it looks like this > >is a long-term thing :) > > > >Anyway, in case you're wondering whether it's a good idea to keep this > >Swiki up-and-running on minnow - we'd be more than happy to take over > >from you. > > > >Regards, > > > >Cees > > > > > > >

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