Retiring and shutting down the ethercalc.openstack.org service
Hello, The https://ethercalc.openstack.org service has become problematic for several reasons: * Our configuration management for the service is still based on Puppet and needs to be modernized to continue running the service. * The service itself isn't well maintained. Its build system is apparently broken [0]. * The service does not capture a history of changes like etherpad, confusing users. * The service crashes semi frequently. The major known user of this service was the PTG planning process. We've talked to the folks that help organize and plan the PTG, and they think other tools (like PTGBot) can be used instead without major trouble. Considering all of this, the OpenDev team would like to retire and shutdown this service. The current plan is to keep the service up and running until the end of the month. Then on May 31, 2022 shut down the server hosting the service, snapshot this server, and finally delete it. Please back up any data you would like to preserve before May 31, 2022. [0] https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc/pull/781 If you have any questions or concerns feel free to respond to this thread or reach out to the OpenDev team. Clark
On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 10:55 PM Clark Boylan <cboylan@sapwetik.org> wrote:
Hello,
The https://ethercalc.openstack.org service has become problematic for several reasons:
* Our configuration management for the service is still based on Puppet and needs to be modernized to continue running the service. * The service itself isn't well maintained. Its build system is apparently broken [0]. * The service does not capture a history of changes like etherpad, confusing users. * The service crashes semi frequently.
The major known user of this service was the PTG planning process. We've talked to the folks that help organize and plan the PTG, and they think other tools (like PTGBot) can be used instead without major trouble. Considering all of this, the OpenDev team would like to retire and shutdown this service.
The current plan is to keep the service up and running until the end of the month. Then on May 31, 2022 shut down the server hosting the service, snapshot this server, and finally delete it. Please back up any data you would like to preserve before May 31, 2022.
[0] https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc/pull/781
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to respond to this thread or reach out to the OpenDev team.
Thanks a lot for keeping this up for all these years. I've no complaints, but manila contributors were ardent users of this ethercalc instance for tracking bugs and release activities through bugsquash events and hackathons (including the ongoing one [1]). Does anyone know of a decent free/opensource hosted spreadsheet alternative? [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2022-April/028377.htm...
Clark
On 2022-05-05 01:06:01 +0530 (+0530), Goutham Pacha Ravi wrote: [...]
Does anyone know of a decent free/opensource hosted spreadsheet alternative? [...]
There are public instances hosted at ethercalc.net and framacalc.org, but they likely suffer from most of the same deficiencies which have made us hesitant to do the work to continue running one ourselves. Hunting around briefly I find references to something similar called jQuery.sheet/WickedGrid, but it seems to have been abandoned for even longer (and I didn't spot any running public instance to try out). -- Jeremy Stanley
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Clark Boylan
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Goutham Pacha Ravi
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Jeremy Stanley