The catch is that we don't want to move off of what it's in Debian, from what I remember. These are obviously slightly dated versions of Trac. Of course that's a ridiculous understatement because the *real* problem IMO is that haskell.org is still running Debian 5 (Lenny.) We're beyond obsolete. I brought this up to Ian on IRC a week or two ago, and he informed me that there are some planned infrastructure upgrades for some of the haskell.org infrastructure. I am not aware of who is in charge here. Personally, I'd like to see this happen sooner and not later now that Wheezey is released. A more concerning aspect of this is that we don't see security updates anymore. An nmap scan (confirming Debian 5 on lambda.haskell.org) reveals a few services which are quite out of date; with handfuls of CVEs against all of them at the least (mostly low priority, but there are several slightly-worrying ones.) On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:

ok, and how would that be done?

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:

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Hi Carter,

The reason the links are broken is because the Git Trac plugin is currently disabled for performance reasons. The easiest thing to do is to get the plugin updated and re-enable it.

Edward

Excerpts from Carter Schonwald's message of Fri May 24 10:52:44 -0700 2013:

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Hey all,

Currently the commit/ source file links on trac wiki and tickets are all dead, and while thats not a problem for active ghc devs and such, it does create more friction for new users.

My understanding is the previously the file and commit references would point at a haskell.org repository, would it be worth having them point at the github analogues thereof? (and for that matter would that be easy to do, or take up more of the finite ghc dev time?)

(in my tickets or the like, i'm by hand doing ghc file / commit links to github to make it easier for myself and others to look up the relevant info.)

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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:52:47PM -0500, Austin Seipp wrote:

The catch is that we don't want to move off of what it's in Debian, from what I remember. These are obviously slightly dated versions of Trac. Of course that's a ridiculous understatement because the *real* problem IMO is that haskell.org is still running Debian 5 (Lenny.) We're beyond obsolete.

I brought this up to Ian on IRC a week or two ago, and he informed me that there are some planned infrastructure upgrades for some of the haskell.org infrastructure.

Right, the plan AFAIR is to consolidate lambda+abbot onto a single new Hetzner machine, with a handful of VMs.

I am not aware of who is in charge here.

Personally, I'd like to see this happen sooner and not later now that Wheezey is released.

Yup, we're just waiting for someone to have time to do it now, AFAIK. CCing a couple of related lists. Thanks Ian