Re: [Debian-l10n-devel] DDTSS still not up

On 25 May 2013 11:52, Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> wrote:

> DSA setup machines for us months if not years ago, so the best way is moving
> the service it's sure.

Now Wheezy is out, DSA doesn't want to keep machines running squeeze, and is
reluctant to invest time in upgrading machines that are not used (what is
understandable).

However some work has been invested on that machine during the sprint.

The machine is almost ready, mostly it needs testing and verification that the config is DSA-compliant.

So where are we ?

In your last mail, you mentioned you work on a change that would be compatible
with DSA expectations regarding apache configuration.
That's right ?

Do both DSA and you are inline wrt what is acceptable in this ddtp apache config ?

Well, hmm. Last I checked my account on the machine had expired and I can't reach the machine at all right now, so no idea what's happening there.

Essentially, the next step was to configure the web server and start using it. I figure the machine was 95% ready. However, (AFAIK) only the DSA can update the web server config and I never managed to get any of them to even look at what I suggested. Eventually I gave up trying and here we are...

So, are we inline? No. Is the rest of the system DSA-compliant? No idea, the rules are largely unwritten. The first week we managed to fill the disk on the Debian PostgreSQL server, so they're understandably wary. That was fixed, but who knows what else will happen. The only thing I know for sure is that deploying the DDTP-ng (written in Python) is out of the question. It's the old system or nothing.

At this point I think the only thing that would help is to get someone from the DSA personally interested in the project and that they help with all the remaining steps to get it working.

(My Plan B by the way is at some point install DDTP-ng on churro. This will make many people happier and may convince the DSA that installing that on ddtp.debian.org is the better option.)

Have a nice day,

Martijn