2008/10/22 Dusty Phillips <buchuki@gmail.com>:
Hey all,
I've finished my first iteration of porting the archweb_pub and archweb_dev sites to django-1.0, along with a substantial rewrite of several portions of the code, as I mentioned in a previous status update. I'm confident the porting part has gone smoothly, but I have concerns that I overlooked testing all aspects (as there are no unit tests on this project as yet) of the code I rewrote.
As such I'm soliciting developer and community to test both sites. The more people that break it, the better I'll feel about putting it into production. ;-) I've copied the current archweb database into a playground for testing. The two sites can be accessed here:
Public Arch Linux site: http://pub.playground.archlinux.ca/
Developer Arch Linux site: http://dev.playground.archlinux.ca/
Hey all, Does anyone have any objection to releasing this today or tomorrow? I've kind of wrapped up my current duties before starting a new job next week, so I thought now would be a good time -- if there are any major errors I'll be able to respond to them quickly. If there's no objection, I need a volunteer with superpowers to help me do the rollout. We need to take down apache and put up a witty site downtime message (a la cactus), upgrade django, update the codebase, and put the site back up. Shouldn't be a major issue, I haven't touched the database schema so there's no migration involved. Thanks, Dusty