Please don't use this wiki for things that are not specifically related to web development, use the ​wiki.transitionnetwork.org site.

Welcome to Transition Technology

This is the web development management site for the ​Transition Network it is used for tickets, documentation, time and code management.

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.

Frequently accessed tickets

Feel free to add / remove items from this list:

• Debian upgrades and updates: ticket:692
• BOA Updates: PuffinServer#Upgradetickets

Trac Wiki and Tickets

We use Trac for time and ticket management.

See wiki:WikiFormatting and wiki:TracWiki for help on editing wiki content, please note that:

• This wiki uses ​CamelCase for pages, don't create all lower case page names or pages with underscores or dashes in them as this breaks automatic links.

See TransitionTrac for Transition Trac information including ticket management and time management.

Trac usernames

Trac ticket usernames are cases sensitive, all the current usernames are all lower case, the current, main, people using this site are:

• chris - sysadmin
• ed -
• laura - WordPress
• ben -
• sam -
• paul - Drupal developer,
• annesley -

Trac usernames cannot be changed, see TracUserAdmin for creating new accounts and changing passwords.

Website developers/designers: start here

Our documentation of the main Transition Network website covers everything you need if you're a designer or developer on the Transition Technologists Team.
Don't do anything without reading the docs first :)

Servers and Websites

The Transition Network rents ​Debian virtual servers from the ​Webarchitects Co-operative, which are powered by ​Good Energy, these servers run multiple ​free libre open source software applications.

• PuffinServer the drupal live server for www.transitionetwork.org, commissioned in February 2013
  • Main Transition Network Drupal website ​http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
  • Sharing Engine Drupal website ​http://news.transitionnetwork.org/
• ParrotServer the WordPress server, commissioned in April 2013
  • REconomy Project ReconomyWordPress ​http://www.reconomy.org/
  • In Transition 2.0 Movie InTransitionWordPress ​http://www.intransitionmovie.com/
  • Earth Inheritors EarthInheritorsWordPress ​http://www.earthinheritors.net/
  • Transition Town Totnes TransitionTownTotnesWordPress ​http://www.transitiontowntotnes.org/
  • Transition Streets Totnes TransitionStreetsWordPress ​http://www.transitionstreets.org.uk/
  • Transition Culture Archive TransitionCultureWordPress ​http://www.transitionculture.org/
• PenguinServer the non-drupal server, commissioned in January 2013
  • Transition Research Network Patterns TransitionResearchWagn ​http://patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org/
  • Wiki MediaWiki ​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/
  • Stats PiwikServer web stats ​https://stats.transitionnetwork.org/
  • Tickets TransitionTrac this site ​https://tech.transitionnetwork.org/
  • Archived static sites on PenguinServer
    • 2010 Wiki Archive: ​http://2010.archive.transitionnetwork.org/
    • 2011 Wiki Archive: ​http://2011.archive.transitionnetwork.org/
    • 2012 Transition Town Totnes Archive: ​http://totnes.transitionnetwork.org/

Services provided: Data, Views & API

NEW: The Transition Network sites are opening themselves to all kinds of other sites, providers and clients to share data and services. See WebServices and wiki:website/about/contentTypes for more.

Git & Release Process

NOTE: We have migrated to Git and ​the repository is hosted on GitHub.

For information on how to use the Git repository and the process we use for releases to the various servers, please see BoaCodeManagement.

Communication

The Transition Technology group works like a free / open source software project, we do most our activity in public, on this wiki and ticketing system. The key meetings are documented on ​the web project blog.

Other channels of communication are:

• ​TTech List, this list has closed archives.
• Skype, but we are looking for a replacement, see ticket:676
• ​#transition IRC channel, on ​freenode see the ​web interface
• We are about to trial ​https://pad.riseup.net/p/ttech, a hosted etherpad tool, for a virtual get together, so that the team can ask questions and get answers. All content will be collected at the the end of the session and captured on our ​trac wiki

Some background documents on how open projects work:

• Shareable: ​How to Integrate Open Collaboration into Your Project
• Wikipedia: ​Open-source software development
• Daniel G. Siegel: ​Typical development processes of free and open source software projects
• Ryan Tomayko: ​Your team should work like an open source project

Sharing Engine

• Main page: ​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Sharing_Engine#Developer_documentation

Developer documentation:

• Widget structure: ​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Sharing_Engine/Widget_structure
• Drupal module, theme and feature: ​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Sharing_Engine/Drupal_code:_a_module,_a_feature_and_a_theme
• Technical workflow & business logic: ​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Sharing_Engine/Technical_workflow_%26_business_logic

International Initiative Registration Service (IIRS)

• Landing page: ​https://tech.transitionnetwork.org/trac/wiki/IIRS

Various

• DomainNames -- DNS notes
• SecurityInfo -- notes on testing the HTTPS SSL certificates
• PiwikServerInstall -- PiwikServer web stats server install notes
• LoadTimes -- somewhere to document how long the site takes to load
• MaintenanceTasks -- somewhere to document ongoing maintenance tracking
• LennyToSqueeze -- notes on upgrading debian
• SqueezeToWheezy -- notes on upgrading debian
• AptitudeUpdateScript -- a-up and logchanges -- scripts to update packages and record the updates in the Changelog
• XenShell -- Notes on console access to the virtual servers
• MetcheCleanScript -- a script to delete old metche backups
• WordPress -- documentation for the Wordpress sites
• TransitionMaintenance -- monthly maintenance process, budget and ticket reports
• AwStatsInstall -- notes on how awstats was installed
• RamUsage -- notes on the allocation and usage of RAM by the virtual servers
• ErrorCodeCheck -- a script to check the Nginx logs for error codes and email the results daily
• WebServerLogs -- notes on analysing web server logs
• WebStats
• ServerBandwidth -- bandwidth stats from the XenShell
• StrategyConsultation -- draft response to ​https://www.transitionnetwork.org/strategy-consultation
• ArchivingSites -- notes on things to consider when archiving sites
• DraftCommunications
• TransitionNetworkEmail -- notes on the United Hosting email service on transitionnetwork.org
• AgileBackup -- bash rsync script for doing backups of servers

Former Servers

• NewLiveServer -- documentation about the old live server, quince.transitionnetwork.org which was switched off on 28th February 2013
• DevelopmentServer -- documentation about the old development server, kiwi.transitionnetwork.org, which ran this Trac site
• LiveServer -- documentation about the old server at gaiahost.coop