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<summary>2006 and troggle</summary
<summary>2006 to 2011 - and troggle</summary
<p>In 2006 Aaron Curtis decided that a more modern set of generated, database-based pages
made sense, and so wrote Troggle.
This uses Django to generate pages.
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This year's expedition also had a non-caving goal (not just drinking Gösser). Recently [since 2006] members of CUCC have started to develop a piece of software called Troggle, which aims to facilitate keeping track of logbook entries, typing up surveys, caves etc, and save time in a lot of the work that goes on behind the scenes when expo is over. This year was the first time Troggle would be tested "in the field" (well, spud hut).
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It was separate for a while until Martin Green added code to merge the old static pages and
new troggle dynamic pages into the same site. This is now the live system running everything (in 2022). Work on developing Troggle further still continues (see <a href="troggle/trogintro.html">Troggle intro</a>).</p>
<p>After Expo 2009 the version control system was updated to a <a href="computing/onlinesystems.html#mercurial">DVCS</a> (Mercurial, aka 'hg'),
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(where it goes offline for a month or two and nearly all the year's edits happen)'.
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<p>The site was moved to Julian Todd's seagrass server (in 2010),
<p>The site was moved to Julian Todd's 'seagrass' server (in 2010),
but the change from a 32-bit to 64-bit machine broke the website autogeneration code,
which was only fixed in early 2011, allowing the move to complete. The
which was only fixed in early 2011, allowing the move to complete.
<p>By 2011 Troggle was under development with a wiki hosted on the CUCC server and we have a
<a href="troggle/2011-archive.html">snapshot of the status in April 2011</a>. As you can see, Troggle was still very incomplete in 2011.
<p>The handbook was separate for a while until Martin Green added code to merge the old static pages and
new troggle dynamic pages into the same site. This is now the live system running everything (in 2022). Work on developing Troggle further still continues (see <a href="troggle/trogintro.html">Troggle intro</a>).</p>
<p>The
data was split into separate repositories: the website,
troggle, the survey data, the tunnel data. Seagrass was turned off at
the end of 2013, and the site has been hosted by Sam Wenham at the
university since Feb 2014.
troggle, the survey data, the tunnel data. 'Seagrass' was turned off at
the end of 2013, and the site moved to a machine managed by Sam Wenham at the
university computer service in Feb 2014.
<p><em>Some text taken from "<a href="/expofiles/documents/troggle/troggle2020.pdf" download>
Troggle: a revised system for cave data management</a>", by Philip Sargent and Aaron Curtis, CUCC [with some additions]</em>.