Re: Sequencer website broken

[Anders Lindh Olsson via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Many facilities are self-hosted and have their own version control software. And in such cases, it can be good for the facility itself to ensure that source code and binaries are available also when connectivity to the internet goes down.

 

What could be useful is to have public mirrors set up for modules as extensively used by the community as sequencer. Timo’s suggestion to host the docs on epics-controls (and I guess this is relevant for any largely used module) would also be an improvement.

 

Cheers

A

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Abdalla Ahmad via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Reply to: Abdalla Ahmad <Abdalla.Ahmad@sesame.org.jo>
Date: Sunday, 19 November 2023 at 06:44
To: "tech-talk@aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>, Ben Franksen <benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de>
Subject: RE: Sequencer website broken

 

Hello Ben,

 

On a side note, why don’t you move the source code to GitHub or any other online VCS service?

 

Best Regards,

Abdalla.

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Timo Korhonen via Tech-talk
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Subject: Re: Sequencer website broken

 

Looking at the documentation sources, the documents seem to be reStructuredText, processed with Sphinx.

 

They could maybe be ported to readthedocs with not too big an effort, and use the process that we developed in the recent Documentathon, see https://docs.epics-controls.org/en/latest/CONTRIBUTING.html

 

Just wondering if this could be an idea 😉

 

Timo

 

 

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Date: Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 17:00
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Subject: Re: Sequencer website broken

 

There does seem to be a copy at https://epics-sequencer-hzb.sourceforge.io/ if anyone is still looking. I'm not sure what the relationship is between Goetz' and Ben's Git repo's though.

 

- Andrew

 

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Complexity comes for free, Simplicity you have to work for.

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Ben Franksen via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 6:59 AM
To: Muir, John Lewis <jlmuir@imca-cat.org>
Cc: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Sequencer website broken

On 13.11.23 22:02, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
>
>    https://epics-sequencer.sourceforge.io/sequencer-2-2/
>
> I get an HTTP 404 (Not Found).

Sourceforge has for the second time deleted the sequencer page without
any notice. The first occasion was a few days after I did the initial
upload. I couldn't even login anymore. They restored it after I sent
them an email (again, without any explanation). I guess I'll have to
look for another place to put the Sequencer web pages.

Sorry for the mess.

Ben