[SciPy-Dev] the demise of SciPy Central

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Surya <kasturi.surya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I can share database dump or access to the server platform. Let me see if
> I can bring back the site up.
>

Awesome, thanks Surya.

Ralf



> Reasons for server down: uWSGi is too long to respond and aborting its
> threads.
> I suspect version incompatibilities with the latest uWSGI and OpenSSL (our
> codebase uses older libraries for almost everything).
>
> I agree that the landscape has changed. Many people post GitHub gists
> instead of code on SciPy Central. SciPy Planet, Cookbook appears to have
> more interesting content.
>
> Thanks
> Surya
>
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Stefan van der Walt <
>> stefanv at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017, at 00:38, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> No plan yet. If I'd have to take a stab at it, I'd suggest:
>>>
>>> 1. Put the content (https://github.com/scipy/SciP
>>> yCentral#backup-and-restore) somewhere accessible
>>> 2. Take the last version of each script/notebook, discard the history.
>>> 3. Write some code to transform all of those into notebooks suitable for
>>> inclusion in https://github.com/scipy/scipy-cookbook
>>> 4. Go through by hand, see what's in good shape, and send PRs to
>>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy-cookbook for those.
>>>
>>> That may be quite a bit of work though. At least (1) should be done
>>> before decommissioning the server.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a perfect student project; I'm going to try and find someone to
>>> work on it.
>>>
>>
>> That would be awesome!
>>
>> @Pauli/Surya: can one of you do (1)? I think you're the only ones with
>> server access?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks for this outline,
>>>
>>> Stéfan
>>>
>>>
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