[volunteers] Hmmmm

[Heather Stern]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:25:44PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Lisa Corsetti (svlug at flygirl.com):
> 
> > As an update, I just got php running with lighttpd on the
> > linnode machine.  It's quite possible that it could run as our
> > main web server as is --- If nothing else, that might be useful
> > if/when we want to tak BOTH the other machines down for hardware
> > changes.
> 
> OK, MoinMoin next.  We aren't seeking to perpetuate Amy's 1998-ish
> design, but rather to migrate to a wiki.  So, it's good to know that 
> Lighty will do PHP (I knew it would), but not actually useful for
> MoinMoin.
 
One of the coredevs for Moin uses lighty for his own work on Moin stuff
so I've no doubts that lighthttpd itself will do fine by moin.

If we're looking at php were we thinking of a bb or what?  

I need to know what auth model you guys would like in moinmoin.  It's 
pluggable so many things are possible, and I'd rather hear the thoughts 
of the group rather than attempt to list possibilities.

> > I dunno about transfering over the perl web-scraper program...
> > since I know nothing about how it is set up.  I shall look into
> > that soon.
> 
> If memory serves, the current site includes three CGI Perl scripts:
> the voting script, the sponsor-spinner script, and WebFetch used for two
> purposes (the front-page Web-scraper headlines feature, and SVLUG News
> as reflected on both the front page and the cumulative News page).
> There is also, of all things, a Linux Counter _Java_ applet on the Links
> Farm page.
 
The plan was for all the spinner/cgi thingies to get turned into macros,
actions, or a combo of these with cronjobs under/in-combo-with moin, so 
that the horrible slowness of CGI goes away forever.  If we'd like to stay
linked on the linux counter that may have to stay an applet; I haven't
investigated anything about that one.

> Hmm, darn it:   http://gemini.starshine.org/SVLUG/ is still offline
> (that's the prototype), which is a small pity because it has the TODO 
> list.  Basically, the plan was to get plain ol' MoinMoin up and running
> _first_ with whatever is the minimum feasible customisations, and none
> of the CGI or Java stuff.  Later, if we have time and interest, we can
> implement those other tchochkes, if they're even worth the effort at
> all.

Now that some of the new hardware for gemini has passed burn in I've turned
its apache back on.  Sorry about that, but a dying site would be worse than
an inaccessible one imo and during the first phases it was up and down a 
*lot* while I was juggling parts.

(gemini's full set of purposes are ending up split onto two machines, but
the outward facing purposes will remain on the name gemini, so don't worry
about that.)

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