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Nomad Quento
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Posted - 2012.04.06 10:04:00 -
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Hi guys.
In the years I have had EVE-Profit, https://eve-profit.com/, I have several times been asked to make it available for local hosting by the players themself. Previously I have rejected that as it is way too troublesome for me to support that method and I don't want to do it, if it cannot be done "proper" + I don't like to have people poking in the security mechanishms on the site as they may find a way in).
As my interest in EVE has been minimized over the last year, and I seem not to be able to find motivation to develop new cool features to the page I am currently thinking of two methods:
1) Make it open source so people can host it themself - with a brief explanation on how to install it but otherwise it is as-is and not much support will be given.
2) Donate it to another player who will continue the development - this meaning taking over the database (dump), the 4 domains (eve-trader.com, eve-profit.com, evetrader.com, eveprofit.com) and the source code (PHP).
I would prefer option 2, but as this requires a level of trust in the receiver, I am a little worried how the current users will react on it. The users coukld though then just delete their accounts before handing over, if they don't trust the new host. Maybe (very likely) no one even wants to take over the project so maybe option 1 is the viable solution to go with?
Anyway - if you have any suggestions, then let me know.
BTW: This is coming up now as two of the four domain names now must be renewed (the eve-profit ones) - and I don't want to renew them, so either they are being handed over for free or expired. I could still use the eve-trader domains (as they have been bought for several years back then) and keep the site running for a while but preferably I would like to terminate the project in a good way.
This is one of the sad things of EVE - people make something other people can use but if they are not any longer motivated for EVE, their projects are terminated. Didn't it also happen for EVE Commander or am I wrong? Making it open source could at least keep the project alive if anyone wanted it but I expect people rather would like to create their own stuff instead of taking over another ones project.
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Posted - 2012.04.11 07:57:00 -
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Kouryusei wrote:If you're looking for a developer to take this over, I'm open to talking - I'm the guy behind Bitter Sea Trading ( http://app.bitterseatrading.com/register ) amongst other things. In terms of what I do for my day job, I work for Amazon. o/ I have sent an ingame message to you - please contact my email address :-) I would like to know your motivation for taking over this project and your future plans for it (if any).
I am currently considering donating it to you plus making it open source after a month or so. This would give you some time to check if you are happy with the security on the page and maybe change it if you don't like it (itn should be okay but I cannot guarantee anything).
I don't care if you want to charge ISK for the service - but I don't like any advertisements on the page so this would be more or less my only requirement for anyone to take over the domains (plus of course don't share the database information to anyone at all!).
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Posted - 2012.04.13 07:46:00 -
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Spectrael wrote:Procedural or OO PHP? Sadly procedural.
I have arranged to handover the project to Kouryusei plus making it open source.
More info will follow once we progress but no user data will be handed over just yet. I expect to hand over the full database with email addresses and API keys within a couple of weeks so if someone don't want that to happen then please delete the account as soon as possible and await a source package to become available.
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Posted - 2012.04.29 10:44:00 -
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Kouryusei, you need to step up if you want to take over this project as per 1st of May - I have written a couple of emails to you which I have not received any answers to?
If I don't hear from you today I will continue to run the project on my server as-is until it breaks down (API changes). The two eve-profit domains will expire at 25th May after which the eve-trader domains will be the only ones active.
The source code will be available as per the 1st of May at this address: http://eve-trader.com/
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Posted - 2012.05.01 15:09:00 -
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The site is currently down for handover. Please check back again tomorrow to see if it is up and running it its new home :-)
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Posted - 2012.05.01 17:53:00 -
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So all - it has come to an end for me with this project but I am happy to see it is prolonged in life by Kouryusei. Thanks a lot for this. I hope the users will still continue using the site as it has given me many many hours of enjoyment to follow my trading progress.
Currently I have handed over everything and we just awaits the DNS to propagate.
I have uploaded the PHP source code for the project here, http://www.myupload.dk/showfile/1sffP5cg5. The database structure is here, http://www.myupload.dk/showfile/1JEaAc0n8.Please feel free to download it and start using it yourself.
Actually I failed providing any installing HOWTO's but anyone who consider installing this should already know it:
1) It uses PHP and MySQL.
2) Unpack the two files
3) Setup the httpd.conf file
4) Import the database definition
5) Delete the trans_raw_1 table (!) Otherwise it will fail to create new users
I guess this should be it - otherwise ask here and I will try and answer it.
Happy ISK'ing :-) And again... thanks a lot to Kouryusei for taking over this project! I am happy to see it didn't die completely.
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Posted - 2012.05.04 14:56:00 -
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Tradelita wrote:Any word on this? I haven't been able to log in since the hand-off. I cannot login either so I don't know more than you. Last I emailed him he told me he was fixing the email issue when sending a new password - that still doesn't work.
Kouryusei - any news on when this will work? Do you need anything? |
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Posted - 2012.05.25 20:10:00 -
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Kailean wrote:Why do you want our contact lists? This is to highlight the trades you do with your contacts. Always good to know wjat you have earned/lost on them? :-)
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