Access to the old website

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Access to the old website #4

Open lfoppiano opened 5 years ago

lfoppiano commented 5 years ago

Hi, I've noticed that in the github version, there are quite many missing images and content, as compared with the online version. Do you know if anybody has access to it? Would be great to download all the content directly from the ftp I think.

I'll ask Alok as well.

nishad commented 5 years ago

We have to excavate a lot to find some usable backup. I will archive anything available as a backup in this repository [1] as independent branches. The last available backup of FTP from a local machine is here [2], but it is a mixed bag and almost identical to the old website in [3]. Please write to the committee for getting more help on that.

[1] https://github.com/TWMC/archive/ [2] https://github.com/TWMC/archive/tree/2015-06-01_anja-ftp [3] http://eve.bk.tsukuba.ac.jp/twmc/

lfoppiano commented 5 years ago

I've got access to the ftp and downloaded... but I cannot push on the archive project

nishad commented 5 years ago

@lfoppiano, please issue a pull request to 2019-08-20_luca-ftp branch, feel free to edit the ´README.txt´ as well. Before each commit, please verify and remove any private information as well.

lfoppiano commented 5 years ago

I've copied what was from the ftp, which is public, which private information you mean? Did you have to remove any information when you pushed the other branches?

nishad commented 5 years ago

I've copied what was from the ftp, which is public, which private information you mean?

Some of the backups used to have old/obsolete credentials for different email accounts and even FTP.

Did you have to remove any information when you pushed the other branches?

I removed a couple of files from the non-FTP backup which has some credentials related to varous obsolete accounts.
From the FTP backup, I removed files created by an older version of Microsoft FrontPage (I guess), which may have some authentication information.
Also, watch out for hidden and .dot files, depending on the type of FTP backup.

nishad commented 5 years ago

@lfoppiano, Since the TWMC/archive repository, is intended to be maintained as an 'archive,' there are branch protection rules [1], which will prevent any push from collaborators in-order to preserve the integrity of the archive. So you may need to issue a pull request to the branch instead of push. Please let me know if there are any issues.

[1] https://help.github.com/en/articles/defining-the-mergeability-of-pull-requests