[tech] Mantis (old Neomussel)

[David Adam]

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.

[1]: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2013-July/004318.html

David Adam
UCC Wheel Member
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au