2018-12-31 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] 2018 Year in Review

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From: emre erdoğan <po***e@gmail.com>
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UTC Datetime: 2018-12-31 22:08:45 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:08:45 +0300

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Thanks for all your great works Tim. I wish a very happy year with your
beatiful family...

1 Oca 2019 Sal 08:03 tarihinde Tim <ti***8@gmail.com> şunu yazdı:

> Firstly, a big thank you to those who have donated this year, especially
> those who have setup recurring donations! I have considered a number of
> times to mothball the Grase hotspot as it didn't feel like it was
> needed/wanted any more. This year, the support you guys have shown me has
> me determined to continue pushing forward!
>
> Also, a big shout out to everyone who's been helping on the mailing list,
> responding to peoples issues and helping each other. This shows me that the
> community of users are active, and contributing back to the community by
> helping others.
>
> Yes, this year gone we missed something I really wanted. Bringing support
> for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Unfortunately it's been much more work than
> anticipated, and I've had much less spare time than anticipated (our family
> grew again with another baby in September!). I also had time taken up by
> some much needed changes to the website and VPN infrastructure. I did
> manage to get a whole bunch of that done during some holidays in the middle
> of the year, but it also uncovered the need to rewrite the server side VPN
> management code.
>
> Something that has also become apparent with the Symfony branch, it won't
> be a clean upgrade path. It will have to be a database backup, clean
> install, and then restore database and run upgrades. When the time comes
> for this, I'll post detailed instructions. If I do manage to make it an in
> place upgrade, then bonus.
>
> Anyway, again, thanks for all the support this year. Here is a list of
> what has been achieved!
>
>    - Migrated website to new hosting infrastructure
>    - Migrated VPN server to new hosting infrastructure
>    - Rewrote VPN management (server side) code to be PHP 7 and OO (
>    https://gitlab.com/grase/grase-key-manager)
>    - Fixed client side VPN for long hostnames, and ever changing VPN key
>    when docker is installed
>    - Moved Symfony branch onto Symfony 4
>    - Sorted out Doctrine in Symfony so it doesn't lazy load all parts of
>    entities causing > 10 queries per user loaded (making the user page load
>    almost instantly vs taking > 30 seconds for large databases)
>    - Many other changes in Symfony branch as old framework pages are
>    migrated. Changes can be seen at
>    https://github.com/GraseHotspot/grase-www-portal/compare/6b9c493b49255095d75ec41d2f8b3e6690d2c56d...symfony4
>    - Setup recurring donation form
>    - Display donors on website (https://grasehotspot.org/donations/)
>    - Display current level of recurring donations on the donations page
>    (and goals)
>    - Increased use of Gitlab along side GitHub. (Why? Because I get CI/CD
>    for free at Gitlab)
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
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