Re: Issues list status

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Tuesday, September 15, 2015 2:39 PM

> Apropos issues: any news about our Allura installation?  What is holding
> up the migration of the issues there?  The https certificate is not per
> se a problem since developers can tell their browser explicitly to
> accept a certificate issued for *.gnu.org even if our own DNS entry does
> not (yet) fit that pattern.

I agree it's not so much of a problem, but there has been no progress or even 
word of progress from those involved for a couple of weeks.
 
> Was there anything else?

Yes.  Allura needs access to a mail server in order to send out an email to 
confirm a user's email address before that user's registration can be completed 
(in particular; it's also needed of course for emailing out reports of changes 
to the issues).  At present the attempts to install a working mail server did 
not succeed, and I have seen no progress in resolving this for a couple of 
weeks.  So I cannot register, and so I cannot try a test migration.

Fortunately the temporary set-up at SourceForge seems to be working 
satisfactorily.

Trevor