Clojure infrastructure update

[Alex Miller]

I have been working with our hosting provider (thanks Contegix!) to upgrade the hosts underneath dev.clojure.org (JIRA and confluence) and build.clojure.org (Hudson). The new hosts are much more recent versions of the OS and seem to be faster.

I cut dev over tonight. There were about 7 ticket changes in CLJS that were lost due to when we copied the data today but I have manually recreated those on the new version. afaik, everything is done with this migration other than re-enabling notification emails on the new box which will happen next. If you experience anything strange, please let me know. Ideally, everything should look and work exactly the same.

build will take a bit longer before I make the switch. We upgraded from the ancient version of Hudson we were on (which was blocking the ability to do contrib builds with cljc) to newest version of Jenkins. Significant portions of the build system are working again (kudos to Jenkins community), but I still have some issues to work through and things to test. Hopefully that will be next week.

I would dearly love to upgrade the JIRA/Confluence/Crowd versions we're on too, but this is a significant undertaking intertwined with software licensing and hosting considerations. Over the course of the last year, I have spent several full weeks worth of time analyzing aspects of this and doing (largely failing) test runs. It will get done eventually, but it's not ready yet.

Alex

PS. By sending this I risk opening up questions about infrastructure and other choices, so let me preempt some of those. :) We have no plans at this time to: use anything other than jira or confluence, accept github PRs, change the CA, change the license, or change the contribution model. These topics have been rehashed on the mailing list a number of times and I don't think anything has changed such that it's worth doing so again. If you want to bend my ear, I will be at the Conj. :)

[John Jacobsen]

Great news, Alex.  

One question not on your list: are there any plans to put JIRA behind HTTPS?  I went to change my password recently and noticed my username/password would be sent in the clear.

Thanks for all the work you do for the community.

John J.