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?

Live Servers

• PuffinServer -- the drupal live server for www.transitionetwork.org commissioned in February 2013
• PenguinServer -- the non-drupal server commissioned in January 2013

Websites

• Main Transition Network website: ​http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ currently running PuffinServer
• Sharing Engine website: ​http://news.transitionnetwork.org/ currently running PuffinServer
• Wiki: ​https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/ running on PenguinServer
• Stats: ​https://stats.transitionnetwork.org/ the PiwikServer web stats server running on PenguinServer

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: 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.

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
• 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

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

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.