[steering] Migration plan (was: Gonna start calling votes)

[Marlene Bruce]

Here's my summary and take on the discussion:

1. Dump m.e.o. in favor of f2o.
Give m.e.o. users notice, time to move (1-2 months?), and longer-term
redirects (3-6 months?). We could zip unmoved files and archive them
for sites that don't move themselves, and return the files if we get
complaints.

It would be ideal to have evolters.org up first. Question: is it
realistic to tie the two together? Will tieing them affect our
ability to achieve the other goals listed below?

2. Move l.e.o. to:
a) e.o.uk, or
b) a sponsored (or inexpensive) service
(How is CSS-D doing as a proving ground?)

3. Ditch Oracle (for which our license was never satisfactorily
confirmed by Dan, BTW) in favor of MySQL or Postgres.

4. Move the rest of the sites to a shared hosting account or a Rackshack box.

3. Create evolters.com to foster the community.
What Isaac said:
Some kinda blog space, member profiles, ability to network
(professionally or socially -- find other people in your area).
News/community articles, and recipes if people want to post them
(taking care of FEO).

6. Create a new wiki and open it up to the community (specifics TBD).
What Martin said:
I'd also like a general wiki - wider in scope than the one we've used
to date and explicitly open to all. Might even do some of the work done by
the tips (plus allow community editing, getting round the 'this tip is
wrong' issue)

7. Suspend the tip harvester if needed.

(8. Redesign the sites.)

Given what I understand to be the issues, I don't have any objections
to the above.

Do we want to set a deadline for the big picture/pieces, and then
milestones to measure our progress?

Thanks,
Marlene

>Okay, if we start with that, what is the migration plan?  What issues
>do we need to resolve?
>
>1) DNS
>2) Moving archives, password-protecting as appropriate
>3) All list postings being archived into Oracle
>4) Tip harvesting, Perl scripts for harvesting and e-mailing weekly summaries
>5) Tips going into Oracle
>6) Exporting/importing users
>7) l.e.o site hosting/configuration
>8) Remove dependence on ColdFusion for l.e.o pages, unless hosting on CF box
>9) Tracking sub/unsub in Oracle
>10) Aliases, virtusertable
>11) Mailman configuration
>12) evolt.org patches to mailman
>13) Access control to lists and machine
>14) htdig, or similar, for password-protected archives
>15) crontab or logrotate to roll the mbox files over
>
>Lists defined:
>
>    admin, content, desdev, finance, ia, konstrukt, marketing, steering,
>    sysadmin, thecharter, thechat, theforum, theheadlines, thelist,
>    themembers, thesite, totc
>
>Anything else that I missed?
>
>Dean