On Thursday, August 30, 2012 5:58:28 PM UTC-7, osimons wrote: > > Server/service downtime is just an unavoidable aspect og hosting, and no > doubt there will be pros and cons regardless of what we do. No guarantees. > Mike & helpers have done a terrific job keeping it running for many years, > but ironically that change was also partly due to an extended blackout > during a personal holiday... Hardware, networks, software, companies and > people cannot always work. Particularly remembering that everything around > Trac is based on voluntary labour and run on shoestring budgets. >
I hope I am just reading too much into your post and you didn't take what I said as criticism of Mike or any other volunteer. I was just passing along what Mike said to me over email: "Once this issue is solved, we should (virtually) get together and consider which options exist to prevent something like this to happen again." Certainly, weeks of downtime is avoidable, and that seems to be everyone's intent. As you suggest, we have the possibility to spread the administration work across multiple people, and pass the infrastructure burden onto others. We have 4 offers to host trac-hacks and free Mike from the mundane work of maintaining and fixing server hardware, so "shoestring budgets" doesn't seem to be a limiting factor in getting reliable hosting for trac-hacks in the future. I just hope we can make a decision soon about which offer we will take to host trac-hacks. I'm eager to help as much as I can and get trac-hacks upgraded to 1.0. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/trac-users/-/RxzngBciWYsJ. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en.
