The http://planet.scipy.org/ site is down.
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Andy Terrel and I have been in the process of migrating the service out of Rackspace account. There was an issue when the Rackspace machine and its snapshots got deleted a little too fast. We're working on recovering the service asap. -- Didrik On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 16:52, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
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Unfortunately the machine that was hosting planet.scipy.org has died. The volunteer that was supporting it, Sheila Miguez, had warned the scipy leadership for over a year that it was going down. Over the last six months after the Rackspace open source program has ended she repeatedly reached out for help. I tried to save it but the machine wasn’t backed up or had any instructions on how to operate. The rackspace images couldn’t be transferred to the NumFOCUS account for some reason that was never understood. Sheila informed Rackspace that she couldn’t pay the bill of over $1200 for the machine and we would need to cancel the account. I paid the bill for her, and started the process of copying files over to a different box. Rackspace, despite telling us it would take 3 days to delete the account took less then 3hours. Since then I have been on numerous support calls but it appears the account is gone. — Andy On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:07 AM Didrik Pinte <dpinte@enthought.com> wrote:
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:39 AM Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your efforts Andy and Didrik. Planet SciPy was useful and fairly popular I think, so worth considering if and how we want to revive it. Besides the server that planet.scipy.org was living on (which was in bad shape), there's the issue that the Planet software hasn't been maintained for ages. Here's what I dug up a couple of years ago: "It took me forever to find the latest planet code, it's actually named Planet Venus now (Planet Planet is dead): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.planet.devel/2223 https://github.com/rubys/venus http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/index.html " Planet Venus had its last update in 2011, so also not viable anymore. The only semi-maintained one (last update Nov 2017) is Planet Pluto now ( https://github.com/feedreader/), which is a Ruby project. So probably best to look for a non-planet solution (e.g. https://www.wprssaggregator.com/). If anyone has experience with something like this that works, would be great to hear. Number 1 on my wish list for an alternative is something that's either hosted or serverless; we always have problems with any server that needs maintaining. Right now there's on healthy server for scipy.org/docs.scipy.org, and I wouldn't want to see that run anything like Planet or Wordpress. Cheers, Ralf
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ma, 2018-08-20 kello 10:18 -0700, Ralf Gommers kirjoitti: [clip]
There are some static site generators, including rawdog ( https://offog.org/code/rawdog/) which apparently is used for planet.kde.org Proof of concept: https://pv.github.io/rawdogplanetscipy/ https://github.com/pv/rawdogplanetscipy/ This has the advantage that it's sort of stateless --- anyone can just clone the git repository, and it should generate more or less the same page. Only static web server needed. Probably someone could put it into crontab and mostly forget about it. However, it's misuse of github pages to host this there, so some other static host would need to be found. Not volunteering to take this into completion, though. Pauli
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ti, 2018-08-21 kello 01:02 +0200, Pauli Virtanen kirjoitti: [clip]
Not volunteering to take this into completion, though.
Well, turns out otherwise: https://planetscipy.netlify.com/ https://github.com/pv/staticplanet/ It's just a essentially stateless static site generator that can be put in a cronjob anywhere, so it's simple to move if I get tired of dealing with it. I understand that if "planet CNAME planetscipy.netlify.com." is added to the scipy.org DNS, it would work after pressing some button. Pauli
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On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 2:16 PM Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:
Awesome, thanks a lot Pauli!
The buttons were pressed; we can all go back to reading https://planet.scipy.org/ Ralf
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Andy Terrel and I have been in the process of migrating the service out of Rackspace account. There was an issue when the Rackspace machine and its snapshots got deleted a little too fast. We're working on recovering the service asap. -- Didrik On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 16:52, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9bb4a79e5379e3d6705fd99a229d76ee.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
Unfortunately the machine that was hosting planet.scipy.org has died. The volunteer that was supporting it, Sheila Miguez, had warned the scipy leadership for over a year that it was going down. Over the last six months after the Rackspace open source program has ended she repeatedly reached out for help. I tried to save it but the machine wasn’t backed up or had any instructions on how to operate. The rackspace images couldn’t be transferred to the NumFOCUS account for some reason that was never understood. Sheila informed Rackspace that she couldn’t pay the bill of over $1200 for the machine and we would need to cancel the account. I paid the bill for her, and started the process of copying files over to a different box. Rackspace, despite telling us it would take 3 days to delete the account took less then 3hours. Since then I have been on numerous support calls but it appears the account is gone. — Andy On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:07 AM Didrik Pinte <dpinte@enthought.com> wrote:
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5f88830d19f9c83e2ddfd913496c5025.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:39 AM Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your efforts Andy and Didrik. Planet SciPy was useful and fairly popular I think, so worth considering if and how we want to revive it. Besides the server that planet.scipy.org was living on (which was in bad shape), there's the issue that the Planet software hasn't been maintained for ages. Here's what I dug up a couple of years ago: "It took me forever to find the latest planet code, it's actually named Planet Venus now (Planet Planet is dead): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.planet.devel/2223 https://github.com/rubys/venus http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/index.html " Planet Venus had its last update in 2011, so also not viable anymore. The only semi-maintained one (last update Nov 2017) is Planet Pluto now ( https://github.com/feedreader/), which is a Ruby project. So probably best to look for a non-planet solution (e.g. https://www.wprssaggregator.com/). If anyone has experience with something like this that works, would be great to hear. Number 1 on my wish list for an alternative is something that's either hosted or serverless; we always have problems with any server that needs maintaining. Right now there's on healthy server for scipy.org/docs.scipy.org, and I wouldn't want to see that run anything like Planet or Wordpress. Cheers, Ralf
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/da3a0a1942fbdc5ee9a9b8115ac5dae7.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
ma, 2018-08-20 kello 10:18 -0700, Ralf Gommers kirjoitti: [clip]
There are some static site generators, including rawdog ( https://offog.org/code/rawdog/) which apparently is used for planet.kde.org Proof of concept: https://pv.github.io/rawdogplanetscipy/ https://github.com/pv/rawdogplanetscipy/ This has the advantage that it's sort of stateless --- anyone can just clone the git repository, and it should generate more or less the same page. Only static web server needed. Probably someone could put it into crontab and mostly forget about it. However, it's misuse of github pages to host this there, so some other static host would need to be found. Not volunteering to take this into completion, though. Pauli
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/da3a0a1942fbdc5ee9a9b8115ac5dae7.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
ti, 2018-08-21 kello 01:02 +0200, Pauli Virtanen kirjoitti: [clip]
Not volunteering to take this into completion, though.
Well, turns out otherwise: https://planetscipy.netlify.com/ https://github.com/pv/staticplanet/ It's just a essentially stateless static site generator that can be put in a cronjob anywhere, so it's simple to move if I get tired of dealing with it. I understand that if "planet CNAME planetscipy.netlify.com." is added to the scipy.org DNS, it would work after pressing some button. Pauli
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On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 2:16 PM Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:
Awesome, thanks a lot Pauli!
The buttons were pressed; we can all go back to reading https://planet.scipy.org/ Ralf
participants (6)
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Andy Ray Terrel
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Charles R Harris
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Didrik Pinte
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Gael Varoquaux
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Pauli Virtanen
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Ralf Gommers