[Systems] Maintenance downtime today for OS upgrades

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:11:06PM -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote:
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> El 13/07/16 a las 05:04, Aleksey Lim escribió:
> > July 10 2016 8:45 PM, "Bernie Innocenti" <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> >> On 10/07/16 12:57, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 09/07/16 19:15, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Most notably, activities.sugarlabs.org is still down. It probably
> >>>> doesn't like PHP 7... The wiki is also very slow because I had to
> >>>> disable APC until I understand how to make Mediawiki use the new APCu.
> >>> I'm still working to restore ASLO. It's an old codebase that was still
> >>> using PHP features that were deprecated in PHP 5.5 and removed in PHP 7...
> >> I finally got ASLO to display its front page, but activities are not
> >> being listed. I had to switch the DB backend to mysqli because the mysql
> >> extension has been removed in PHP7.
> >>
> >> Aleksey, since you're familiar with ASLO's codebase, would you be able
> >> to look into the outstanding issues?
> > At the end, I don't think it makes sense to try to restore original ASLO
> > functionality on PHP7. More reasonable would be being stuck to PHP5, ie,
> > either running PHP5 on sunjammer, or, running ASLO on separate host.
> >
> Hi Alsroot,
> How far do you think http://school-network.org/hub/ might be from a
> state that it could replace ASLO?

SN was a research project. For sure, it cannot replace ASLO.

> Do you think with some effort from our part we may put it in production
> in ASLO's place?

Not sure it makes sense to try since ASLO can be easily restored
and SN condition is far from ASLO-like production usage.

-- 
Aleksey