[Actionchix] Website migration progress report #2

[Jen-Mei Wu]

Gloria and I haven't had a chance to talk for more than a minute but
will probably be able to talk later today.

I noticed that there's no gcc on the server. I thought about installing
gcc then thought that the absence of the compiler might have been a
security consideration ... can anyone confirm this?

In the meantime, I'm going to try to do an install without gcc unless I
hear that gcc will work. To do this, I've setup a Debian Sarge box w/ an
apt sources.list like the one we have in production. I've installed
zope, which gets zope 2.6, and it's running okay -- this is how it's
installed on our server.  I've also installed zope2.9 via apt and need
to test to make sure that it has no ill effects on zope 2.6 and that it
runs Plone 2.5 okay.  If we feel good about things working, we'll do the
same thing in production. If not, I'll copy my locally compiled
Python/Zope/Plone up to the server and see if that works better.

I'm writing this message in between a march for immigrant rights and a
meeting so not much will get done for a few hours. Gloria -- I'll give
you a call when I'm back at the computer.

Jen-Mei

Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> #2 of the attempts at weekly update requests. Plone installers: can we
> have a list of what is done, and what is yet to
> do? 
>
> ----
>
> Here's the current plan, and * is where we are:
>
> *1. Plone to be installed on the main server at, say,
>     beta.linuxchix.org, locked up behind HTTP Basic Auth (to keep Google
>     from indexing it and the general public away from it until it's
>     live)
>
>  2. The current website to be set read-only or the nearest equivalent
>     (with the exception of the news manager).
>
>  3. Content migration to begin into Plone under the direction of Chris
>     and Jen, following the new site architecture as devised by Chris and
>     Amy.
>
>     Content migration should be tracked using some kind of todo list, eg
>     on the wiki. As many volunteers as we have should do the transition.
>     A smaller number of people should check each page for semantically
>     sane XHTML after each page is transferred.
>
>     Any pages moving URLs should have their old and new URLs recorded in
>     the todo list for redirecting.
>
>  4. Simultaneously with 3, Plone administrators to set up the following
>     features:
>
>     1. a news feed with RSS
>     2. an "events" for upcoming conferences and LinuxChix events with
>        RSS and, if possible, iCal.
>
>  5. Once migration is complete, the new site should become www., the
>     basic auth be dropped, and redirects go into effect.
>
>  6. After the new site goes live, I will make a decision about design,
>     and call for volunteers to implement it as a Plone skin (and for
>     accessibility volunteers to give feedback).
>
>  7. After the new site goes live, we will do whatever is required to set
>     up website translation.
>   


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