Broken, forbidden, and inaccessible project links.

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:51:34 +0200

adminsforum@hubzilla.org

tallship schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:51:33 +0200

Broken, forbidden, and inaccessible project links.

Hi,

I'm cross posting this here because first, it's the official Hubzilla support forum, and secondly, I'm not sure how many of the actual devs here actually check out monitor the discussions in the Hubzilla support Matrix room at:

#hubzilla:elsmussols.net

Below is my original post, followed by a response from one of the other mods in the Matrix room...

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After recommending a couple of folks to take Hubzilla for a drive, I've received some reports back of blank pages and 404's. Namely:

https://hubzilla.org/page/zotlabs/home - blank page

https://hubzilla.org/channel/hubzilla-announcements/ - 404

And the git repo is requiring new accounts to wait, according to their warning, up to five days, before one can browse plugins, for example.

I have a framagit account, but upon checking while not logged in I received a warning informing me of such:

https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core-addons/

The first two links are prominently placed on the home page, links that first time visitors are likely to try and visit.

Perhaps if someone can look into these?

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tallship I think the problem with Framagit is that they are over capacity, and have closed registrations for a while. But agree, it's bad for Hubzilla that it makes it difficult for new people to report bugs.

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:34:29 +0200

RockyIII

rockyiii@huby.infozoo.de

@hEARt PhoniX

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:13:09 +0200 zuletzt bearbeitet: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:16:42 +0200

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

@tallship The Framagit vs. Codeberg discussion has been raised before. There are good reasons why younger projects have migrated or started in Codeberg - Running a software in a repo that effectively bars feedback, is a major problem. Maybe this is why the Hubzilla Support Channel seems to be the more direct line to the devs (Not sure who runs and monitors the Matrix room).

AFAIR, @Mario Vavti had raised the issue almost a year ago that Codeberg has not yet implemented a Continuous Integration (CI/CD) mechanism (which Framagit has) - Which makes testing more easy and reliable.

Meantime, it seems Codeberg has implemented Woodpecker as their CI ( https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-CI) - But I am far from being up-to-date, or having the competence to evaluate.

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 06:22:17 +0200

tallship

tallship@zotum.net

Thanks for clarifying the ongoing matter with git forges, and that does make much sense. I gather this will be resolved when it is feasible.

The most pressing issue however, and in my humble opinion, is with respect to the myriad broken links. That really serves to dissuade adoption I think, and when I advocate for Hubzilla in public forums related to FOSS self-hosted solutions or Fediverse type platforms in general, I get people querying as to whether the project is still maintained.

Are there people here who can address and cleanup these links and offline sites? Does someone need hosting for some of these prominently placed references when everyday people go searching for Hubzilla and Zot related offerings?

Many of us would like to help. Perhaps a working group to identify and assist in maintaining? It was just brought up in the Matrix room that monitoring solutions could help too, alerting personnel responsible for maintaining the websites when front facing web based problems occur.

Anyway, I don't want to clutter the forum here when there are other hub admins needing immediate support, so I'll just leave it at that and hope this is enough, and to say that there are those of us already that are willing to step up and help with our public presence.

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