On Saturday 30 May 2009 11:55:17 Matthew Toseland wrote: > We need to get rid of emu. It costs us a significant amount of money and we > don't seem able to cost-effecitvely administer it. > > Basically what we need: > - PHP scripts. The website is built with PHP.
But it could easily be all static. > - Database-backed PHP for MANTIS. I don't think we should get rid of MANTIS. The consensus is we should get a whole new bug tracker and dump all the old issues, maybe run a copy on a developer's machine for checking old bugs. IMHO getting rid of the bug database would be a bad thing and lead to significant work in migration, but ian, nextgens and sdiz think otherwise. > - SSL. We need to serve checksums and signatures through SSL, although big > files will generally be served through HTTP. It would be nice to serve the > installer through SSL if we have a huge traffic limit, since code signing > certs are expensive, on the other hand if we get cheaper hosting we can > probably afford to buy a code signing cert with a fraction of the money > saved... > - IMAP accounts ideally, but at least aliases. - Wiki. We need a wiki. There are free wiki providers. Migrating our existing english language wikka wiki will be some work, migrating the french mediawiki wiki will be less work. - Mailing lists. Berlios does this, there are also free mailman sites such as: http://www.glowhost.com/mailman.php -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090530/2f484a76/attachment.pgp>
