[tech] Mantis (old Neomussel)

[David Adam]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, David Adam wrote:
> I would like to remove Mantis.
> 
> The idea was that it would be a replacement for Mussel, hosted on 
> different hardware & VM software, and "cleaner".[1]
> 
> I don't think that it has fulfilled the goals. In terms of replacing 
> Mussel, it is only running the static website and a secondary IRC server. 
> It has never had the SOE completely installed, it runs a mixture of Debian 
> Stable and Unstable, and I don't think it's been installed in a 
> particularly cleaner manner. Finally, we moved Mussel to the same 
> hardware/VM software which fixed the issues we were having with it.
> 
> At present it is a 4GB VM on Medico (Mussel is also on Medico) and we 
> could use those resources more wisely. I intend to move the website back 
> to Mussel, stop the VM and then destroy it in a few weeks if there are no 
> objections.

[SZM] has kindly done the first of these steps so I have taken the second.

[DAA]