Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
Hello,
For those of you who may not know me, I'm part of the team of people who look after the overall openguides project and software.
I have this evening brought london.openguides.org back online on a new host, using the database dump from last year that Earle gave me.
Very much appreciated, Dom!
This is catalysed both by Earle leaving the project and a discussion that arose at the pub the other weekend - essentially the point was made that there is still a nasty fork between RGL and london.openguides.org, and that there was also much content that had been put on the latter that was temporarily lost. I therefore decided it was best to get the latter back up as soon as possible, if nothing else so the content could be taken from there and put on RGL.
I'm not able to decide for people which guide to use, and I'm also not a Londoner, so I'm only getting involved as as custodian, but I do think that it would be good to look at the situation and decide whether making two London guides is still the best thing, or whether they should be merged again somehow.
As a Londoner, and as a primary content owner of OGL, I am willing to step up as admin for OGL, and take charge of dealing with moderation and daily spam pollution. I do have the tuits and the motivation.
Dom, could you please let me have the admin password (unless this hasn't changed). Also, I know Earle had shell access to the box hosting OGL, and this was occasionally useful. I don't need this from day 1, but it could be useful.
Regarding the merge, I can use my mirroring tools to script transferring nodes across. Of course I'll do this in a test environment of my own first before doing anything to the live RGL.
Please discuss!
Can I have some input from Kake, Bob and others please about RGL content and direction. I could populate individual categories if you don't want OGL content to be loaded wholesale.
Cheers, Dominic.
P.S. Please also note that the lists have moved to a new host today as well. This means that http://lists.openguides.org/ URLs may not work for you for a day or so until the DNS TTL expires. I apologies that I wasn't able to avoid this, due to the coordination issues of migrating the list quickly.
Thanks again for doing this Dom, I felt it was a very fruitful discussion we had in the Turf the other Saturday.
Cheers,
Ivor.