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.

Website developers/designers - start here

These guides/pages do a fair amount of what may seem like stating the obvious for the more experienced. In the words of the great Master Sifu, "now there is a level zero" :)

• Transition Network website? (www.transitionnetwork.org) - what does it do, and how does it work?

Servers

• PuffinServer -- new new live server to go live and replace NewLiveServer and perhaps DevelopmentServer in January 2013
• PenguinServer -- new new non-drupal server to go live and replace some things running on NewLiveServer and some on the DevelopmentServer in January 2013
• NewLiveServer -- documentation about the current live server, ​quince.transitionnetwork.org
• DevelopmentServer -- documentation about the development server, ​kiwi.transitionnetwork.org, which runs this Trac site
• LiveServer -- documentation about the old server at gaiahost.coop

Websites

• Main Transition Network website: ​http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ (See also the dev versions: ​dev.transitionnetwork.org and ​test.transitionnetwork.org)
• Workspaces sub-site Transition Network website: ​http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ (See also the dev versions: ​workspaces.dev.transitionnetwork.org or ​workspaces.test.transitionnetwork.org)
• Sharing Engine website: ​http://news.transitionnetwork.org/ (See also the dev version: ​news.dev.transitionnetwork.org)
• Wiki: ​http://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/ (install documented on wiki:NewLiveServer#mediawiki and wiki:DevelopmentServer#Mediawiki)

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 ContentTypes? for more.

Git & Release Process

NOTE: The Git migration is done and the repository is presently hosted on GitHub, Integration with Trac needs finishing, #364, and once completed the repository will be visible here too: browser:www

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

Various

• DomainNames -- DNS notes
• SecurityInfo -- notes on testing the HTTPS SSL certificates
• PiwikServer -- web stats server
• LoadTimes -- somewhere to document how long the site takes to load
• MaintenanceTasks -- somewhere to document ongoing maintenance tracking
• LennyToSqueeze -- notes on upgrading debian
• AptitudeUpdateScript -- a-up and logchanges -- scripts to update packages and record the updates in the Changelog

Trac

This Trac site can be administered via the ​admin interface.

Local Trac documentation:

• TracUserAdmin -- adding user accounts to Trac
• TimingAndEstimationPlugin -- the time tracking extension
• DevelopmentServer#Trac -- install notes
• TracGuide -- built-in documentation
• TracSupport -- Trac support

External resources:

• ​The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
• ​Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions

You can test things on the SandBox page.

This Trac site was installed via ticket:1, there is also a ticket for enabling incoming email so that tickets could be updated via email, ticket:3 and one for adding time tracking to commits, ticket:179.