[steering] Moving Forward

[Martin Burns]

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 07:53  pm, Dean Mah wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It has come to my attention that Ron will be re-locating at the end of
> March.  Ron has been able to cover for us while at his current
> location but this won't be the case at the new location.  So we need
> to accelerate our plans to get evolt.org moved.

Lest it not be obvious, we have 6 weeks.

>
> First things first.  I don't think that there is any opposition in
> general to the proposed plan.  We just need to finalize this by a vote
> on theforum.  I think that we should take javier's message and send it
> to theforum.  We need to finish votes within about 5 days, I'd say.

Friday. Which will leave us 5 weeks.

> I think it is generally accepted, without working out the details of
> full functionality (thetips, archiving), to move the lists to e.o.uk.
> b.e.o is already there, or at least a mirror.

Should be doable very quickly.

> We need to warn m.e.o users that the service is going away and they
> need to grab their data.

As *soon* as the vote's complete.

> d.e.o can likely move to e.o.uk without a problem if PHP/MySQL is
> there.

It is.

> So, the big problem is w.e.o and or.e.o.  We're not likely to get
> another host with Oracle so we need to migrate the database.  With the
> database change there are CMS changes.  We need to finalize the
> database changes quickly and start work on the porting of code.

Jeff - the best understanding I have is that it's "a lot" of work. How
much is that in man/days, and how much time do you have to give it over
the next 6 weeks?

> I think, we should try to make the changes so that future porting will
> be database independent, i.e., don't use INDENTITY, AUTO-INCREMENT,
> SEQUENCES, etc. if possible.

Totally agree - it also lets us start work before the final platform
decision.

Cheers
Martin

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