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:

On 2/11/2020 8:21 AM, Ian Hinder wrote:

On 10 Feb 2020, at 16:37, Steven R. Brandt <sbrandt@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 At present, the website is full of things that are horribly out of date and likely does more harm than good for anyone reading it.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Deleting content which is out of date would help.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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