Move off Trac - Initiation

[btlogy]

As discussed during the nuts-and-bolts meeting this Tue 5th of Mars 2024, I'm creating this issue to initiate the possible migration of Trac.

The main deliverable of this task would be a document (Wiki page?) describing, at least:

• the goals and initial requirements
• the current situation
• the possible foreseeable options

[btlogy]

I've already compiled some notes from the last Tuesday meeting and assessed the current situation to some extend.

But I'm unsure if I should/could share what I have so far in a Wiki page or an other live document (cryptpad.fr) before we have something sound to start the next phase (planning) - if we do.

[btlogy]

I've a few questions I'd like to find the answer in order to update my notes about this task:

1. #3742 is about a repository on gitlab.com for infra/Terraform code : does it exist? is it used to deploy this Trac instance? how is it deployed otherwise?
2. there are many other services running on the same system, including 7 other Trac projects, a Darks server and at least 3 Builbot masters: should those be in the scope too?
3. the version of this Trac instance (v1.0.13) and the system hosting it (Ubuntu 19) have a few new releases (Trac 1.6.0 / Ubuntu 22): is there something blocking some upgrade?
4. as mentioned in my previous comment: what would be the best way to share my notes so we can collaborate to improve them (cryptpad.fr)?

[meejah]

I'm not aware of any infratructure repository, and don't immediately see anything on gitlab.com (at least under tahoe-lafs org).

Sharing notes could be done on cryptpad.fr for sure. Another option could be to find a suitable place in docs/* and do that via a pull-request.

[btlogy]

As discussed last week in the Nuts and Bolt meeting, I've published a summary of my assessment of the current state of the infrastructure around Trac in a new Wiki page: DevInfra