[Users] meeting minutes for 2020-02-06

[Steven R. Brandt]

OK, I have this imported from SVN: 
https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/cactuscode

Some of you already have commit rights on it. I'm happy to have more.

We apparently have a docker image in 
https://github.com/stevenrbrandt/et-websites already... and apparently I 
made it, though I don't remember doing so. Maybe I'm older than I think.

What I need is someone to help with the content.

--Steve

On 2/11/2020 10:04 AM, Steven R. Brandt wrote:
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> On 2/11/2020 8:21 AM, Ian Hinder wrote:
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>>> On 10 Feb 2020, at 16:37, Steven R. Brandt <sbrandt at cct.lsu.edu 
>>> <mailto:sbrandt at cct.lsu.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>> So the question is, what do we do about the website? We don't have 
>>> the time, person-power, or budget to maintain it. At present, the 
>>> website is full of things that are horribly out of date and likely 
>>> does more harm than good for anyone reading it.
>>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> For time, person power and budget, how would this change if it were 
>> moved to be under the ET website?
>
> I don't have a dollar or hour figure, but the svn repo is maintained 
> by CCT, which sits on a server which has to be upgraded from time to 
> time and there are svn client server version issues, etc. Similar 
> issues apply to the webserver. The machine has to be upgraded from 
> time to time, which includes going and getting new docs, etc. If we 
> put a webserver on github and served cactuscode.org out of a docker 
> image like we do for the ET, that would simplify upgrades and 
> refreshing. It would also help us to document what the website does 
> and make it possible to host it elsewhere if that ever becomes 
> necessary or desirable.
>
> My belief is that if we want to keep a cactuscode.org website, we 
> should all help in updating it and making it worthwhile.
>
>>
>> Is the issue related to keeping the content up-to-date, or 
>> infrastructure issues like maintaining a separate webserver etc?
> Mostly, it's keeping the content relevant, but the website updated and 
> running is a bit of a hassle too.
>>
>> Deleting content which is out of date would help.
> Right, but there's a lot of content and I don't have the time to go 
> through it all--I don't think anyone does. I think we need to ask what 
> the minimum thing is that we want. What are the critical set of pages?
>>>
>>> We could make a website that's just a few well-chosen pages with a 
>>> similar template to the ETK.
>>>
>> Reducing the amount of administrative duplication is certainly desirable.
>
> It's more than desirable IMHO, it's necessary. Also, in recent months 
> we've been working to decentralize administration and make sure that  
> more than one person knows how to keep various things running. This is 
> another opportunity to continue that trend.
>
> --Steve
>
>>
>> -- 
>> Ian**Hinder
>> Research Software Engineer
>> University of Manchester, UK
>>
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