Thanks for your kind words. I agree with you on our "unbreakable community" but I'm not sure that "well documented" is a realistic description! :) We try, but as per many open source projects, documentation is perhaps one of our biggest challenges. I don't want to raise expectations too high, but we have plans to consolidate and organize our documentation better. The structure of the updated website (background work in progress - no ETA) will hopefully make docs easier to find what you are looking for and/or contribute to make it better. It will allow us to have a "single source of truth" without the way that information is quite scattered and not always consistent.
I'm glad to hear that despite all the false starts and dead ends you managed to get there in the end. The story of your Nextcloud maintenance/upgrade experience here is an epic tale. It has plenty of woe, but also shows good humor and lots of tenacity! TBH it actually read a lot like a good short story. For a moment I forgot that it was your real world frustration maintaining a Turnkey server and was just a cool and interesting story. It had all the ups, downs and the happy ending that many good fiction stories have. But then I crashed back to reality...
Beyond that I'd like to take this opportunity to explicitly to thank you for all that you have contributed over the years. You are a valuable community member and we're really glad to have you involved. TurnKey community members like you are what keep us going. It is fantastic to get insight into both the good and the bad parts of using TurnKey in production. I have no doubt that your contributions to TurnKey over the years have helped many other users - perhaps without them (or you) even knowing.
Your Nextcloud experience is particularly useful. It is one of our most popular appliances but I have not maintained it in production myself. Vicarious experience from long term users such as yourself is invaluable. Despite my extensive experience maintaining the appliance library (there is not a single appliance that I have not touched at one time or other) I have only maintained a few TurnKey servers in production. My "real world" experience maintaining a production TKL server is limited. We only "dogfood" a few (inc this website and the master mirror) and I run some for personal use (Gitea, Mediaserver among them). So there are many that I have never used other than to spin up to troubleshoot bug and issues users report.
I started writing a heap more, but I'm not going to get it finished, so figured that I'd post this bit first. Hopefully I'll get back to it next week.
Happy New Year to you too! :)
Happy New Year to you too! :)
Thanks for your kind words. I agree with you on our "unbreakable community" but I'm not sure that "well documented" is a realistic description! :) We try, but as per many open source projects, documentation is perhaps one of our biggest challenges. I don't want to raise expectations too high, but we have plans to consolidate and organize our documentation better. The structure of the updated website (background work in progress - no ETA) will hopefully make docs easier to find what you are looking for and/or contribute to make it better. It will allow us to have a "single source of truth" without the way that information is quite scattered and not always consistent.
I'm glad to hear that despite all the false starts and dead ends you managed to get there in the end. The story of your Nextcloud maintenance/upgrade experience here is an epic tale. It has plenty of woe, but also shows good humor and lots of tenacity! TBH it actually read a lot like a good short story. For a moment I forgot that it was your real world frustration maintaining a Turnkey server and was just a cool and interesting story. It had all the ups, downs and the happy ending that many good fiction stories have. But then I crashed back to reality...
Beyond that I'd like to take this opportunity to explicitly to thank you for all that you have contributed over the years. You are a valuable community member and we're really glad to have you involved. TurnKey community members like you are what keep us going. It is fantastic to get insight into both the good and the bad parts of using TurnKey in production. I have no doubt that your contributions to TurnKey over the years have helped many other users - perhaps without them (or you) even knowing.
Your Nextcloud experience is particularly useful. It is one of our most popular appliances but I have not maintained it in production myself. Vicarious experience from long term users such as yourself is invaluable. Despite my extensive experience maintaining the appliance library (there is not a single appliance that I have not touched at one time or other) I have only maintained a few TurnKey servers in production. My "real world" experience maintaining a production TKL server is limited. We only "dogfood" a few (inc this website and the master mirror) and I run some for personal use (Gitea, Mediaserver among them). So there are many that I have never used other than to spin up to troubleshoot bug and issues users report.
I started writing a heap more, but I'm not going to get it finished, so figured that I'd post this bit first. Hopefully I'll get back to it next week.
Take care bro and thanks again for everything :)