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Move Off Trac
The goal of this page is to cover the phases of a project aiming at moving some critical features from Trac to an other solution (or combination of).
Scope
Goals and Requirements
- MUST replace Trac as currently used for Ticket and Wiki by some alternative(s):
- MUST look better: current UI looks old which makes the Tahoe-LAFS project looking dead
- MUST be better maintained: Trac is dying? max 2 contributors per month - https://openhub.net/p/trac
- MUST be easier to maintain: Trac is difficult to update (current = v1.0.13/2016-09-11, latest = v1.6.0/2023-09-23)?
- MUST allow Self-Registration (Trac requires manual registration via email)
- COULD support OAuth2 with Github?
- MUST be (F)OSS
- MUST be self-hostable
- note "able": MUST be a story for getting to a self-hosted instance if we want
- ..but doesn't have to be self-hosted right away
- MUST replace the current landing page (start/home page from the Trac/Wiki?):
- preferably with a static blog/page generator updated from a Git repo (e.g.: (Go)Jekyll, Hugo)
- possibly with a LAMP stack as discussed: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3892
- MUST replace the current binary repository for Tahoe-LAFS releases (https://tahoe-lafs.org/downloads)
- by providing at least a similar way to transfer files via ssh
- COULD be used to replace:
- Github code hosting and review (pull request), keeping only a mirrored clone
- Github Actions (to avoid leaving secrets in environment variables)
- Circle CI (to avoid giving them too many permissions)
Inclusions
- Trac users of the Tahoe-LAFS project
- Trac issues of the Tahoe-LAFS project
- Trac wiki pages of the Tahoe-LAFS project
- Trac HTML home page of the Tahoe-LAFS project
- Hall of Fame HTML page of the Tahoe-LAFS project
- The related DNS records (mostly: tahoe-lafs.org)
Exclusions
- Other Trac projects (see DevInfra)
- Buildbot master instances for some other Trac projects
- DARCS SCM for some of the other Trac projects
- Any other services provided by the current server and not yet documented in DevInfra
Deliverables
- A VPS (hosted by Hetzner) providing the following features powered by NixOS and Gitea:
- a tracking system provisioned with the issues migrated from Trac (same numbers)
- a Wiki system provisioned with the relevant pages migrated from Trac (same names)
- a static website replacing the landing page from Trac with the code required for CI and CD
- a blog post for the Hall of Fame page (if sensible - fallback = static page)
- a (Git) repository defining the VPS it-self and its configuration as code (including the secrets using sops)
- optionally including the terraform code allowing to manage the related DNS records (if Gandi supports it)
- A detailed migration plan to handle the transition (DNS changes and/or redirections)
- documented in a this wiki page
- covering the possible manual steps related to DNS records, HTTP redirections or URL rewriting
- with a (Git) repository including/referring to the tools used to actually migrate
- An high-level migration plan for the features hosted on the VPS described to be later hosted on Codeberg SaaS (assuming it is possible)
- documented in this wiki page too