NHM tool for taxonomists to build,share & manage biological data on an open bioscience web platform. Team: @therobyouknow @benjaminscott & other NHM colleagues.
Natural History Museum, London
Joined June 2012
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With sadness, after 13+ years, we are retiring hosted Scratchpads, effective from the end of September 2023. Please see our blog for more info scratchpads.org/news/2023-04…. A massive thank you from the scratchpads team to all our users and the community you've built!
@mcarper Hello! Drupal AdvAgg:We have 'www' included in cached file paths breaking styling, tried solutions here: drupal.org/project/advagg/is… I think upgrading our version from 7.x-2.8 to latest will fix it, instead of adding custom hook on the old version - do you agree? Thanks! 1/2
2/2 Here's our issue here (also mentioned on that Drupal issue): github.com/NaturalHistoryMus…
Thanks again!
Aiming for a new release to be out on your site in next 2 weeks. Includes fixing IUCN and tabs. Details to follow.
I'm awaiting @IUCNRedList to advise me when their API will be back up. One of the things being fixed in Scratchpads is making use of their new API v3 and I would need to complete testing using it. It has been working before, in December.
@IUCN can you talk to your @IUCNRedList colleagues about this issue please. Thank you!
Rob - Holiday/vacation: I'm in work today Fri 26 Aug 2022 and after that back on Wed 7 Sep 2022.
My colleagues are available for contact through usual communication means.
Thank you. Rob
github.com/NaturalHistoryMus…
Sites should be back online. We'll make notes from this to avoid future similar incidents. Thank you for your patience.
^Rob
Apologies for unavailability of your Scratchpad site.
There is an unplanned outage occurring at the moment and we're working on finding out why it happened.
So far, there appears to be an issue with the database servers.
I'm pleased to advise that the password email reset facility should now work, following initial testing. More detail here: github.com/NaturalHistoryMus…
If you've not been getting password reset request emails, I would now expect you to get these, when you request a password reset.
Needs some further work to check it works with all kinds of email addresses, checking firewall rules.
Good morning, holiday/vacation: Rob is back next week 6 June. github.com/NaturalHistoryMus…
Scratchpads improvements & plans - projects here:
github.com/NaturalHistoryMu.…
These projects collect together tickets under each subject.
Priorities: Performance and a release to fix current issues. For performance: top 2 items is smart housekeeping and use of an additional server.
Updated link that is accessible without a github login: github.com/orgs/NaturalHisto…
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Good morning! Back from holiday/vacation and I'll be catching up on issues in github as well as progressing plans for performance improvements and releases of fixes for issues raised - Rob
Good morning! I'm on holiday/vacation this week - look forward to catching up with scratchpads users next week, from 28 March when I'll expand on short term and longer term plans - github.com/NaturalHistoryMus…
Future service enhancements:
First of additional database servers now available. We will be planning its usage and also considering further expansion later in future.
Part of our ongoing commitment for good, continuous performance.
Thanks to our infra team for arranging.
github ticket for it outlining it here: github.com/NaturalHistoryMus… which links to issues we think it will reduce in the future.
