[mythtv-users] mythtv.org website is down

[Scott Theisen]

On 7/8/24 19:07, Scott T wrote:
> On 2024-07-07 17:26:28, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 6:20 PM Paul Harrison<mythtv at mythqml.net>  wrote:
> ...
>>> I wonder if we still need trac? I think it's only purpose these days is for historical references from older commit messages maybe?
>>>
>>> Could we maybe move trac to somewhere that makes it harder for the bots to find? Or restrict it access to developers only or from certain referer urls only?
>> trac is, unfortunately, a complex application.
>> I have seen a few attempts to dump the
>> entire database to a HTML file and move it
>> to static, with mixed results.  Isolating trac
>> into it's own container is probably the path
>> forward (so that if it stops responding due
>> to "interesting" queries, only that application
>> falls over).  But that idea is based only on
>> a vague understanding of how the current
>> infrastructure is managed (so take with
>> three or four grains of salt).
>>
>> Gary
>
> There are probably still a few things on the Trac wiki that could be 
> migrated to the MediaWiki wiki, see 
> https://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2021-September/078806.html
>
> Other than that, I think it is only for the 13658 closed tickets, the 
> newest of which is 4 years old.  It would be nice to keep it, but if 
> it is a problem, I don't think it would be much of a loss. (That said, 
> I still want it around in the near term while I am still figuring out 
> what the FFmpeg changes are supposed to do, since most of them are 10 
> to 15 years old or older.)
>
> The fact we are using Trac 1.2.4, which is 5 years old probably 
> doesn't help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>

It appears archive.org has scanned the trac pages, so if we remove trac 
the tickets should still be available there using 
https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/<ticket number> (I only checked a 
small sample, however.).
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