Re: git-scm.com status report

> On 17 May 2017, at 04:03, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:56:37PM -0400, Samuel Lijin wrote:
> 
>> So I've finally found the time to get everything set up (in the
>> process discovering that remote_genbook2 consistently induces a
>> segfault in VirtualBox's networking driver, impressively enough) and
>> am taking a look at how much work it would take to get the site
>> running on AWS EC2/DO or some other hosting provider.
>> 
>> Some things I'm wondering about:
>> 
>> - You mentioned a lot of people reaching out off-list about hosting
>> options. Do any of them look particularly appealing at the moment?
> 
> Yes. I actually have stuff to announce there soon, but was holding off
> until the final pieces are in place. But basically, the architecture
> would remain largely the same, but hosted on community-owned accounts
> (that I can share access to), with sponsorship from various hosting
> services.
> 
>> - How do I set up the ES service?
> 
> I haven't ever tried to do this in the local development environment.
> The production site currently just use a cloud-hosted ES (Bonsai). They
> have free "Sandbox" plans for testing, so you could probably use that as
> a test resource after setting up the relevant environment variables. Or
> alternatively, I think ElasticSearch folks produce binary builds you can
> try, and you could host locally.
> 
> There's a rake job that inserts documents into the search index (see
> lib/tasks/search.rake).