Site Upgrades: Coming Soon!

[CrazyEddie]

Hello all,

This is a heads-up post to say that sometime soon there will be a major upgrade to certain components of the site, and minor upgrades to the rest. Prior to Sourceforge.net's migration to their new systems we had been very limited in which versions of the site packages we could use due to them not running the required versions of the prerequisite packages, though since their migration, this was no longer an issue. The issue subsequently became one of time, logistics and certain other requirements we have being met (a change of this nature is not something you just 'do' to a production site, there are myriad things that could go wrong).

Suffice to say that we are now in a position to make those important upgrades happen, and have entered a testing phase to ensure that the site data can be migrated without issue and that the updated packages all operate together as expected.

I do not have a final date as to then the upgrade will occur for the live site, though due to the size and complexity of the upgrade procedure, the entire site will be offline while that is done. Barring any major issues, the site should be down and back up again within a few hours.

Thanks for reading!

[CrazyEddie]

We are narrowing down the last couple of issues with regards to this upgrade, so it is my intention to go live with the upgrades over the coming weekend (mainly because weekends seem to be a quieter time on the forum), so you can expect the site to disappear over the weekend

CE

[CrazyEddie]

Just to confirm, and narrow, the above 'intended time scale' for this site upgrade to something more specific.

The site upgrades will happen on 18th April 2009 (that's tomorrow), beginning at 0700 GMT and ending at 1200 GMT. While the upgrade work is in progress the entire website at the cegui.org.uk domain will be unavailable. The subversion repository and file release downloads will remain available as usual via sourceforge, since they are handled via different systems.

See you on the other side

[CrazyEddie]

Ok, site updates are complete. Nothing particularly nasty should have gone wrong, though let us know here of any issues.

[Edit]
Correction, I killed the skins site I'll have it back up later this afternoon

[CrazyEddie]

Ok, the skins site is readable again now, though authentication is not working at present (so no adding or editing of skins). I know what the issue is and how to fix it, but I'll not do it until sometime later (probably tomorrow) as right at the moment I have a headache and am going away from the computer.

[CrazyEddie]

I did not get around to fixing the log-in on the skins site as yet - I'll try to get to it this week (yeah, yeah, I know ). In the mean time, in the unlikely event that someone actually needs to log-in there, please contact me and I'll sort something out.

[jacmoe]

Nice new forum! :)

[CrazyEddie]

Thanks phpBB3 is pretty much in a different league to phpBB2.

[jacmoe]

The best feature of PHPBB3 is that you can log in, log out and log in again - all without wiping out your unread topics.
It's a real lifesaver, and gives you peace of mind, especially when you're team/project leader/moderator. :)