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7:33 AM
OK, I have my nginx set up pretty good. I can switch between it and Apache without readers noticing ;) now git deploy
looks like it would be fun, to make branches deploy properly
@Letharion have you ever did it? ;)
 
@Mołot Sounds very nice :) What's keeps the site up while you switch? Multiple webservers, varnish?
I'm not sure, I've done deployments using git, yes. But searching for "git deploy" finds an interesting looking repo on github that appears to be helpful in those tasks. Is that what you refer to?
I've almost worked my way through the entire close backlog now. Three more days, unless something drastic happens.
 
We have many virtual hosts, so I can sync them, and simply switch traffic
 
Sadly the queue is still huge.
 
My config was like that: git repo on server, developers committing to it when their changes was ready, auto-checkout to working directory, and manual move to stage, production etc if needed
But it is getting tiresome, and we need to develop few separate, independend, big changes
that's why I'd like branch-per-server, at least on devel. Manually moving code to production once in a while is not that bad. Not something I want, but I can live with it
Sadly, I'm more a developer, less an admin. I was using environment like that, but never needed to create it
 
7:48 AM
Same here, more developer. I'm generally not involved at all in deployments at economist.
 
Are you hiring? ;)

I mean, I'm pretty universal, and pay is good for my country, but I would prefer working somewhere where I don't need to do everything except theming. Theming guy here knows his job, and he knows what he wants :)
Being the one who can do weird things means I will be forced to do them, want it or not. Good if I'm bored, bad if I have some development task I really want to finish asap
 
I'm not sure, but I'd actually think the answer is yes. I can check. :)
 
I meant it as half-joke. But on the other hand, I have no bounds in Poland, nothing keeps me here except the fact I never felt strong enough urge to move.
 
 
3 hours later…
10:32 AM
Sweet! 20k rep :D
 
10:44 AM
Congratulations :)
@Letharion How is the view up there? ;)
 
11:24 AM
@Mołot It's pretty nice! ;) I'll have to read up on what sort of responsibilities I just earned myself.
 
"Skip" is your friend now
;)
 
11:37 AM
Well, "just" 5k and I'll be there, too ;p
Seems I'm steadily slowing down
 
Wait, skip, what? I don't get it.

Yeah, I've slowed down a lot as well. I think at least half of my last 5k have just been a really slow trickle of up votes to old answers I've written. _so_ many questions are just slight variations of old ones that people would find if they spent a little more time to understand what they're asking. Of course, no one really wants that, including myself ;)
 
11:54 AM
In all review queues you have "Skip" if you are unsure what to do
With new powers - inactivity is always a way, with no damage
@Letharion I need to visit England to really learn to talk clearly ;)
 
Oh, yeah, I don't think anything affects the reviewing though. Looks like I have some new voting options though. I no longer need to bother mods with "this is not an answer" answers, but can vote directly on their removal. Of course, there's probably not enough people to finish the vote without the mods yet, so they still need to do the work ;)
 
Upvote me a bit, I promise to be good and vote ;p
 
lol. I'd upvote all your posts, except I know they'll catch that tell me off ;)
 
(for any low-rep reading this: It was just a joke. Pleas do not serial-upvote anyone!)
 
Eh, it's not like it will hurt them either. System's just gonna reverse it.
 
12:03 PM
First time, yes
second time, maybe
 
@Mołot It certainly helped my English, though it also had this weird effect, that I now sometimes think in English; and I'll do direct translations of english expressions into my native language, and catch myself only after I've said them, thinking "That made no sense".
 
few times - vote ban and mod alert
 
@Mołot Right, though I just expect people to get it after the first time.
 
It hit me once
one user just posted a lot of bad stuff on frontpage
and I was recognized as serial downvoter
and system never told me
I got no notification
 
Hmm, no, guess the system wouldn't want to let you know, as that would gradually tip you off about the exact rules.
 
12:05 PM
only thing that made me check was that I've seen questions at 0 I saw at -3 or -5 dthe day before
so no, someone may be caught as serial upvoter and never notice he did anything wrong
 
Still though, even if it happened multiple times, as soon as anyone reviewed the case, it'd be obvious you had no malicious intent, and are an upstanding citizen. :)
 
Hard to "get it after the first time" if nobody tells you the firstt ime
well there was no consequences for me then
but I just wanted to make sure we will not put any innocents on mines here
 
You are absolutely right. :)
 
And I still think that people should be notified
The first time it happens, I mean
One time should not be enough to accurately scan the system.
 
 
3 hours later…
3:21 PM
Greetings!
Heh, this is the first time I've ever been in chat. I'll have to try spend some time in here sometimes.

Thanks everyone for all the answers. This site is an incredibly valuable resource.
 
3:34 PM
@Rooby Hey :) Glad to have someone else in here ;) Not that @Molot isn't awesome company :D but the whole thing is gonna die out unless we get more people frequenting in here. I'm it could become a popular place to ask/discuss those more broad and open questions that off-topic on the main site. :)
 
Yeah, well that's what it is intended for anyway.
Maybe the threshold of question/answer commenting before you get the chat notification could be reduced, but sometimes the comments are useful there.
I used to use IRC more but haven't for a while.
This could be like an IRC for the less tech savvy users of drupal answers.
Chat is a great place to get information if there are enough people around.
 
I use IRC as well, and I guess one reason why this chat isn't popular, is because IRC is very popular in the Drupal Community. But yeah, there's plenty of people who find IRC a bit scary, and those might be more inclined to hang out in here. :)
 
3:50 PM
Yeah. I see the benefits of chat being the regulars chit chat, which is probably all over on IRC and people getting answers to questions.
Maybe the fact that the website is for question/answers means that people just post all questions there and disregard chat and and after that follow up chat is not usually neessary?
 
Well, people do post "all" questions as questions, which is something of a problem, for themselves if not for the rest of us. A lot of questions are just not suited to the site, but would be perfectly acceptable in here. Everything along the lines of "Should I use module X or Y" is off-topic, but could be discussed here, for example.
 
4:14 PM
Yeah I often stop myself from posting comments that are kind of off topic but would be useful via chat.
As I'm just clinking around one main issue might be discoverability.
Maybe a section in a prominent location with a link to chat and a brief description of what it is for would be good.
 
 
1 hour later…
5:39 PM
Good evening, fellows :)
I got branch <-> server mapping up and running
my life will be much easier now ;)
 
Sweet. So what exactly are you using to achieve that?
 
Good old git and it's hooks
I set all repos on servers to their branches, and hook in central repo calls git pull on each directory. We settled on NFS, but ssh was OK, too. just slower
Now struggling with scanner but that has nothing to do with Drupal ;)
 
Cool stuff. :)
The only use I've seen of hooks before is to run tests. Which is also very nice. Git refuses any commits of mine unless the tests all pass.
 
Well, git hooks are nice, too bad many people forgets about them
I wasn't able achieve half as much in SVN
I'm not saying it was impossible, but for me as non-admin git makes more sense
 

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