sgtm. Thanks for the insight :)
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Steven Gill <stevengil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good question. > > Both are offering instances to cordova. When we had the iriscouch outage > late last year/early this year we decided to pursue Cloudant as a backup. I > personally find Cloudant's dashboard a huge improvement over the couchdb's > futon app. We have also had better support from Cloudant. These are the > reasons why I am in favour of making cloudant our default registry and > using iriscouch as the backup. > > In the end of the day, I am open to either though. It doesn't make a huge > difference. We should have continuous replication setup on the registry and > downloads dbs for both services to keep them up to date and use one as a > backup. > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> > wrote: > > > Thanks Steve! > > > > Out of curiosity, why the switch from iriscouch -> cloudant? Is it easy > to > > replicate all the current plugins to cloudant? > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Steven Gill <stevengil...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > > > As some of you may know, I have been chipping away at the new > > > http://plugins.cordova.io site. > > > > > > You can see my progress at http://stage.plugins.cordova.io. > > > > > > The repo for the UI can be found at > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-registry-web.git. I've > > > been > > > working on the refactor branch. > > > > > > I have updated the readme ( > > > https://github.com/apache/cordova-registry-web/tree/refactor) with > > > instructions on how to get this running locally in case you are > > interested > > > in contributing. I've also added a bunch of grunt tasks to deploy > locally > > > and remotely. > > > > > > Still lots of work to do, but I think we are getting close to at least > > > being able to replace the currently existing site. Feature wise I think > > we > > > are there. Lots of design stuff still to do (font/spacing/etc). > > > > > > I am tracking the progress and new issues at > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5130. > > > > > > The current plugins site and cordova registry is hosted by iriscouch. > The > > > new site is hosted by Cloudant. When we are nearing deploying, we > should > > > update the registry in plugman to use Cloudant. We will keep the > > iriscouch > > > DB's up for a while after to make sure the transition is smooth. I > > believe > > > all we have to do is update the DNS for registry.cordova.io. > > > > > > Please provide feedback/questions here or on the issue itself. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > -Steve > > > > > >
