For earlier history see Website history. -
On 15th March Wookey upgraded the server to the debian release 11 bullseye. -At this point 'debian stable' is bullseye and has python 3.9 as -standard. We will quickly migrate to Django 3.2 LTS which is now a year old and which will be supported until April 2024. -Bullseye will be in support until June 2026. - -
Django migrations are not nearly as painful as they used to be, and troggle is already compatible with Django 4.0.3 (though we won't use that). -So the presure to migrate from Django is now very greatly lessened. However, see troggle architecture speculations -and possible migration from Django. - - -
We should not need to anything until we move from Django 3.2 LTS to 4.2 LTS before April 2024. - -
Wookey at last, after much effort, got the loser repository converted from mercurial to git, with much tidying and -history-reconfabulation. He says this will need to be done again, but it was good enough for the 2022 Expo. Also the troggle code was -changed: survex files edited on a webpage now automatically commit to git with no user involvement. -
Just before expo, we finished integrating the formerly-separate 'wallets' script. -So now the progress of scanning and tunneling survey data can be managed more easily. This -has turned out to be unexpectedly powerful. And it works on the data back to 1999 too. -
Wookey's replacment WiFi antenna (previously we had used Sam's) turned out to be useless, so internet access was not -available in the hut this year. This was a real pain.
Because Nadia asked nicely, we now have a rename form for uploaded files in wallets. This year we also have a 'create wallet' form.