[LTER-im] Drupal 6 funeral and the IM site.

[Matt Jones]

Hello IMs --

Just wanted to follow up with a few details about the web site migration.
In consultation with Corinna and others at EDI (formerly NIMO), and with
support from James at LNO, we migrated the LTER informational web sites to
the NCO, and have been operating them for the last several months,
including handling necessary security updates.  Marty met with Corinna and
others from EDI last week to discuss how to move the IM site (and other
data oriented sites) over to the EDI.  What became clear is that there are
still some decisions to be made as the role of the EDI gets better defined
with respect to LTER and other non-LTER groups like OBFS and macrosystems
projects.  So, for the time being, we will continue to operate the web
sites at NCO, at least until EDI is operational; at that point, some
portion of the content that makes sense may be moved over to EDI or
elsewhere, depending on what the IM community and EDI wants to do.  So,
thanks, Inigo, for the offer, but at this time its probably best not to
separate the IM site from the other other Drupal instances at LTER that it
is intertwined with -- we'll get it and the other sites upgraded to D7 and
continue to provide access to IMs via their LDAP logins.  More info as
Corinna et al. get operational at EDI...

Best regards,

Matt

--
Matthew B. Jones
LTER Network Communications Office
http://www.lternet.edu

Director of Informatics R&D
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
University of California Santa Barbara
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinfo

Co-PI, DataONE
https://dataone.org

PI, NSF Arctic Data Center
https://arcticdata.io






On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Inigo San Gil <isangil at lternet.edu> wrote:

>
> IMs,
>
> Drupal 6 (D6) End of support came in the early spring of 2016. A couple of
> weeks ago, we attended a proper funeral, New Orleans style. Very emotional
> event, as you can imagine.
>
> I thought I would offer to move the IM site to a supported platform (hint:
> the IM site runs on D6), perhaps clean it up a bit, and make it mobile
> friendly.  Not a lot of work, but it is not for the faint of heart, as the
> site hosts over 1,000 nodes, which to you it means at least 1,000 pages of
> content. With the combinations and relationships, it makes up a wealth of
> information.
>
> The information is now at some risk, when the next critical vulnerability
> hits, we would probably scramble for a fix. Or not, but it wont be as easy
> as it is with a supported product.  That is why I offered to update the
> site.
>
> James Brunt offered an out-of-date snapshot of the database, but it would
> be really better to hit the production database, so content can be migrated
> once and again -- there is no need for downtimes, no operational
> disruptions.  Except, that is, the lack of responsiveness.
>
> For this I need the cooperation of the new hosts, the NCEAS.  We sent them
> an email over 10 days ago.  I sent them a reminder 8 days ago.
>
> All I need is ONE of two SIMPLE things:
> -- Either shell access to the server hosting the IM site
> OR
> -- 2 files: a mysqldump file of the back end database, and the "files"
> directory of that site.
>
> I got one answer that asked me to wait (???) for a meeting last week.
>
> It has been over two weeks since my initial offer.  If this is going to be
> the MO of the NCEAS, I would suggest we host the IM site ourselves (whether
> in our servers, or in a cloud instance). Same fate with Databits.  If we
> insist on having NCEAS providing this sort of service, you can help by
> reminding NCEAS about turnaround times and service expectations, specially
> for simple things that entail 5 mins of their time.
>
> Inigo
>
>
> --
>
> Inigo San Gil
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