What ibuclaw has been doing on his server

[Iain Buclaw]

On 10 July 2012 12:45, Leandro Lucarella <luca at llucax.com.ar> wrote:
> Iain Buclaw, el 10 de July a las 09:17 me escribiste:
>> >> Around April, I got myself a new server that I planned to be dedicated to all
>> >> things gdc.  Initially it provided a default web page - which will soon have
>> >> useful links to development, bugs, build releases for various architectures /
>> >> platforms, etc.
>> >>
>> >> http://gdcproject.org
>> >
>> > Food for thought, make sure someone has automated off-site backups.
>> > Protecting against single-person hosted sites and them disappearing is
>> > important for long term health.  For example, Walter downloads a nightly
>> > dump of the dbugs data base from my system.
>>
>> Will have to get that done eventually... if only there was someone who
>> I can trust. :o)
>
> You don't really need to trust anyone, what you want to backup is
> publicly available anyway, right? Then you can make a tarball or
> something and just publish it in some obscure path in the web. Then
> anyone willing to do a backup only have to download that tarball. If is
> not too big, you could also open a gmail account and send the tarball to
> that account (I did this for backing up a small server).
>

Publicly available to download might be one thing, but only works if
someone is willing to retrieve it.  :-)
Gmail account would be under lock and key by me, unless I give someone
else access to it.


>> > The gdc category was disabled at the bugzilla I host by request of someone
>> > on the gdc project ages ago.  I don't remember who.  I'd be happy to
>> > re-open it and give admin access to one or two people.  Having it report
>> > changes to a list or a newsgroup is pretty easy to setup.
>>
>> I don't think that would be needed now, but thanks.  Yes it would be
>> useful to co-ordinate bugs raised in gdc that are really bugs in D
>> frontend.  But this is an increasingly rare occurrence.
>
> Maybe when GDC gets merged this could change, as the I think the
> userbase of GDC could grow a lot. But even then, maybe is not too hard
> to move a bug from one bugzilla instance to another.
>

There is a 'See Also' where you can link in external bug urls to your report.


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Iain Buclaw

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