[Sugar-devel] trac breakage

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Walter,
>
> The immediate issues with trac (and also socialhelp) sending emails is a
> configuration issue.  Right now it is a horrible configuration where it
> sends emails via smpt.sugarlabs.org, but the password that both services
> use for that (socialhelp account on sunjammer) expired.
>
> Really, the mail situation could probably fixed by adding a "postfix"
> container and letting anybody on freedom link to it and use it.  The
> password thing was probably not the best setup, sorry.
>
> Other than trac not sending emails, was there anything else?  Or just
> looking for something a little more shiny?
>

I am not looking for something shiny, just something that works and that
someone is maintaining. I don't have the knowledge or the cycles to help
with this myself. It is unfortunate that during GSoC recruitment, when many
new users are trying to set up accounts, that is has been broken.

My simple rule of thumb is that if we can find an equivalent service
somewhere else that someone else maintains and it does not impinge on our
freedoms, we should consider it, as sysadmin time is of a premium. Git Hub
issues come to mind.

>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I was going to bring this up at the last SLOB meeting but we ran out of
> time. We have serious problems with b.sl.o regarding user management. While
> I can assign new users unmoderated status, I cannot actually enable their
> accounts since I cannot access the user page (it is so full of spam users
> that it times out before loading -- even though Sam increased the timeout a
> few months back). The verification by email is broken, hence the need to
> find a different way to validate.
>
> My recommendation is that we look into alternatives to trac. We can keep
> the old system running as an archive, but it seems time to move on. (I've
> been told -- although I have not confirmed -- that trac is not regularly
> maintained upstream any more, which would be all the more reason to move
> on.)
>
> Does the sysadmin team have any recommendations? Any thoughts from the
> devel community?
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
> <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
>
>


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