21 Apr
2019
21 Apr
'19
10:52 p.m.
Slávek Banko wrote:
On Friday 19 of April 2019 12:52:02 Alexis PM via
trinity-devel wrote:
Thank you all, who make this possible. Following TGW I see how things are
moving with lightspeed infront of my eyes (compared to bugzilla) and I
admire this. I hope for the best of the project.
regards
It's a critical but difficult issue. But
obviously the development of
the best desktop environment that exists cannot be weighed down or
stopped by personal issues. This is not a criticism to anyone, we should
be grateful to those who have contributed even if today the lack of time
or other personal reasons make them no longer active. But TDE
development must continue, there are many people who use it (even if
they seem invisible because they are not developers / contributors or do
not participate in the mailing lists). A robust infrastructure system
that is resilient to personal issues must be sought and put in place. It
is necessary to deploy the infrastructure on quality servers that do not
depend on a specific person, so I understand the two appropriate
questions are "Are there people, companies or organizations that can
provide infrastructure to the project?" (it is possible to search and
contact those who support other free software projects of similar size
and needs) and "If there is not enough server infrastructure provided
free of charge for the deployment of all the infrastructure, what is the
cost (monthly and annual) of paying for commercial servers with the
necessary features?" (and consider the feasibility of a cash donation
campaign).
Best regards.
I would say that regardless of the problems mentioned, the project is
doing well. Here are some moments that make us already have services that
are independent of the primary site:
At the beginning of 2014 there were problems on the primary site - the
build of the packages was suspended. As an alternative to this situation,
the Preliminary Stable Builds repository was created. This repository is
completely independent of the primary server - in providing space and
especially in building packages. Although building is not fully automated
like QuickBuild, we are able to build packages and publish repositories
independently of the primary site.
There was another important moment in the fall of 2015. We got as a
donation from vpsFree.org one virtual machine (VPS). This VPS first served
as a readonly mirror of GIT repositories (CGit web interface).
Another important task for VPS was to create a primary redirector. With
optimizations and caches, this redirector helps significantly in releasing
new releases. At the same time, it resolved access to packages in case of
problems or outages on the primary site.
Another important moment was summer 2018. We launched Trinity Gitea
Workspace (TGW) at the VPS. This service is also independent of the
primary site. And now it works as a prime location for all our developers.
I would say that thanks to TGW we have moved forward significantly over
the last three quarters of the year.
Nowadays, there is another service on VPS that we will soon announce - a
translation management tool.
As you can see, donating VPS from vpsFree.org has made a significant
contribution to us. It is possible that the intended structural changes
will require additional costs. However, we hope that we will be able to
get support at community or personal level, that there will be no need to
involve commercial entities.
Cheers