Dear Heroes,
here is an announcement from the SUSE EngInfra team.
What: We want to update our UCS identity provider that is used for
bugzilla/OBS/openid
When: tomorrow 2021-01-21 08:00 - 13:00 UTC
Why: to be on the latest version, to get features and bugfixes
Who: me+jdsn, possibly with other EngInfra collegues
What to expect:
During parts of that time, no user updates (creation, password, email
changes etc) will be possible.
https://idp-portal.suse.com/ will just show "under maintenance" then.
We made preparations so that authentication can continue everywhere all
the time, but since this is not well tested, users could experience some
login problems during the update.
Ciao
Bernhard M.
Hi forum admins (and fellow heroes),
On behalf of the openSUSE Heroes team, I'd like to inform you that I'm
working on upgrading the software stack running the openSUSE Forum
server.
I have set up a test server to demo the result of the upgrade:
https://osforums.plexor.ch/
Please take a look at it, and give me feedback on your thoughts.
As you will quickly notice, the visual appearance of the demo server is
not right. That's because our custom theming on the current forum
server is incompatible with newer versions of vBulletin, so it can't be
reused, unfortunately. In my opinion, upgrading the production server
is blocked until a new theme has been created - do you agree? (At the
very least, the logo must be replaced, and more green would be nice,
too.)
Since I'm not very familiar with frontend technology, I'd appreciate
getting some help with this. Would anyone (any community member) like
to help recreate the openSUSE styling for the new forum? Also, does
anyone know who created the original custom styling for the forums?
Other than the loss of styling, migration of all forum content works as
expected and without error, as far as I can tell. But of course, if
anyone finds any migration issues, especially with forum content,
please let me know.
Looking forward to hear your feedback.
Regards,
Olav Reinert
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
The current software stack running the forums is:
* vBulletin 4.2
* PHP 5.5
* SLES 12 SP5
The upgrade will migrate the forum server to the following stack:
* vBulletin 5.6
* PHP 7.4
* openSUSE Leap 15.2
The current forum server works, of course, but is based on rather old
software versions.
More importantly, it isn't administered by the SaltStack configuration
used to manage most other openSUSE infrastructure - and likely never
will be in its current state. This makes it very cumbersome, and a bit
risky, for the Heroes team to maintain, and is one of the main
motivations for upgrading.
Op dinsdag 12 januari 2021 15:36:14 CET schreef Malcolm:
> Hi All
> That was my understanding as well, move to new platform....
>
> My thought is just archiving off the older posts in the 4.2 release,
> this becomes read only for users to access (link too etc), newer posts
> imported into new Forum platform (say 12-18 months)...
Same here. And FWIW I'd love to see us move to Discourse.
Also, I don't know where the miscommunication originates. No pointing fingers,
not blaming anyone, but I have seen posts here and there about the activity of
contributors working on Discourse as a replacement for VB. I agree with
Stasiek: I'd rather see us cooperate on that, instead of spending time on
multiple options.
--
Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht
openSUSE Board
openSUSE Forums Team
On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 08:36 -0600, Malcolm wrote:
> My thought is just archiving off the older posts in the 4.2 release,
> this becomes read only for users to access (link too etc), newer
> posts
> imported into new Forum platform (say 12-18 months)...
I think we can do better than that, and I wouldn't like to treat some
threads/posts worse than others if it can be avoided.
Regards,
Olav
Hello,
the next heroes meeting will be on Tuesday (2021-01-05) at 19:00 UTC /
20:00 CET on https://meet.opensuse.org/heroes
So far, https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/80644 "only" lists the
usual topics. Feel free to add whatever you want to discuss ;-)
Regards,
Christian Boltz
--
Nichts hält so lange wie ein Provisorium
[Uwe Drießen in postfixbuch-users]
I tried searching the hyperkitty archives (the ARM list) for the results
of the ARM survey from last year, but if I search for e.g. "survey", I
get exactly one hit (six months old), rather than Doug Demaio's posting
from December titled "ARM survery results meeting" ??
--
Per Jessen, Zürich (1.2°C)
Member, openSUSE Heroes
