On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 01:04:15PM +0200, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
The root of all evil is that progress.o.o runs a very old version of Redmine and, as a consequence, a rather old Ruby and operating system. Even more, when I logged into the machine I noticed the Redmine log had not been rotated for months. It was eating 8.5GB of disk space, basically the whole /srv partition... so expect fireworks sooner than later if that's not fixed. In short, quite an "hostile" environment to make real diagnosis/modifications there beyond what I did (that was not exactly developer work, just "top" and look for alternatives).
I know there are plans to migrate everything to recent versions and a properly maintained up-to-date machine. That means updating Redmine, which would imply dropping or updating several custom Redmine plugins nobody is maintaining anymore. Already some time ago Darix created this overview document https://etherpad.nue.suse.com/p/redmine-upgrade Back then, I was trying to help to move some plugins forward. But it would be better to drop as many plugins as possible or to get help from someone that is still an up-to-date Ruby On Rails developer (in the last three years I have only touched Rails to fix concrete progress.o.o and software.o.o issues).
Thanks Ancor for your work, it is much appreciated! Since the update gets more and more urgent (and I also would really like to get rid of old VMs), I will set up a leap VM with fully updated redmine, with no plugins enabled, copy the production db and give access to people to test stuff. Then we can decide which plugins are still needed and try to find a solution for them. -- Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@opensuse.org> <tchatzimichos@suse.com> System Administrator SUSE Operations and Services Team