On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Dusty Phillips wrote:

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/

Since I copied the live database over, your developer login on the test site should be the same as it is on the live archweb_dev.

Once I'm confident the site is tested enough, I will need someone with superpowers to schedule a time to coordinate the upgrade of django (via pacman, drop the ignorepkg in pacman.conf) with merging the new branch into master and updating the live site. We should probably take the live site down for a bit -- do you think we can pull Eliott out of retirement for a bit to come up with a downtime message?

I just did a quick browse of the public site and things seemed to be working fine, or at least I didn't break it. Great work here, thanks. -Dan

2008/10/22 Dusty Phillips :

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