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ivanhoe-staging.herokuapp.com shutdown #277

Closed erochest closed 8 years ago

erochest commented 8 years ago

The Ivanhoe staging app on Heroku uses the Mandrake module to handle email services (signing people up and that kind of thing). As far as I know, no one is using this staging site, and the code is a bit behind the code here in github. Because of that, I don't see any reason to transfer to a new service, and instead want to back up the database and put the site permanently into maintenance mode.

If anyone has any objections, they need to speak up in the new few days. If I don't hear anything, I'll turn it off Thursday morning.

Sorry for the late notice.

af3pj commented 8 years ago

Hi—

Will the backup be accessible? I used a couple of the games as examples in a class and in a presentation this year, and was hoping to hold that option open in the future.

—Andrew

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Eric Rochester notifications@github.com wrote:

The Ivanhoe staging app on Heroku uses the Mandrake module to handle email services (signing people up and that kind of thing). As far as I know, no one is using this staging site, and the code is a bit behind the code here in github. Because of that, I don't see any reason to transfer to a new service, and instead want to back up the database and put the site permanently into maintenance mode.

If anyone has any objections, they need to speak up in the new few days. If I don't hear anything, I'll turn it off Thursday morning.

Sorry for the late notice.

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erochest commented 8 years ago

So what I've done is gone ahead and removed that add-in. You should be able to still get to the sample games, although the site won't be able to send you email at all.

Let me know if it gives you any problems, though. Eric

jennifergrayburn commented 8 years ago

Just a general question, since maintenance mode is a new term for me. What will visitors see when it is in maintenance mode? Is the implication that it is no longer functioning or will it look like we're making changes and it might be back online some time? In a lot of my interviews, I've talked about what I've started to call "digital clutter," and how it isn't always clear what happens to a project after it receives some notice. I'm fine taking it down for good, but it'd be interesting to consider something of a "digital obituary." Then if people encounter it down the line (like through the DH Now blog post I have on my CV), there will be some interesting considerations of the project and its conclusion. I'd love to write a blog post on it if nothing else.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Eric Rochester notifications@github.com wrote:

Closed #277 https://github.com/scholarslab/ivanhoe/issues/277.

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erochest commented 8 years ago

They would have seen a notice that it's no longer accessible. This would not apply to the Ivanhoe project itself, only the sample games that are on the staging server, which isn't even running the latest version of the plugin. Ivanhoe itself would still be available for download.

That said, at this point, nothing should change. Everything will stay up, but the staging site probably won't be useful for creating new games, but I don't believe that was happening, anyway.