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Description This add-on recreates every SpaceX mission from 2015 to 2019. ASDS and FRV locations are as close to historically accurate as possible. Some guesswork was used for some scenarios, as SpaceX doesn't always publish every tiny detail of...
www.orbiter-forum.com
When I click the dependency links it says "addon not found"
This is now also fixed. There was also a rogue A record leftover, so there might be some redirects to the old OHM.
At last, after a second try the migration is now complete. This marks the first of a couple of infra changes we’re planning to do.
So what’s complete?
We’ve moved all the add-ons from OHM to the
Orbiter Addons section of this board. Technically this means that OHM is (again) decommissioned. From a functional perspective, OHM continues to live as
Orbiter Addons.
As you are all aware, we ran into some issues during the first migration.
OHM was a
very old platform which had undergone various iterations.
Since I’ve joined the OF community, OHM has been:
- A platform to host add-ons, completely separately from OF
- A platform to host add-ons, with authentication linked to OF
- A platform to host add-ons, driven by an API in preparation for the next OHM
OHM was developed by various members of the OF community, with most not active anymore. OHM being an old PHP application, Xyon and I decided to rebuild OHM from the ground up with an API and a separate frontend. Our efforts started in 2017 and we made good progress. However, the project stalled while we worked on other things - both IRL and for OF. We gave it some more attention after the XenForo migration, but not enough to finish it.
With the XenForo migration done we got a lot more features, including the resources section.
Since a lot of the webadmins have moved on and Xyon and I also are limited in our time, this is in our opinion the best way forward.
With these bigger migrations, there’s always change. Things look different, some functionality is somewhere else and some features are gone. However, it also gives back new things. One of the things I think the community will help (and what we were planning for the new OHM) is that an add-on can be managed as a team with 10 members. The original uploader is in full control who to include.
It might take a while, but please take some time to get used to the new system.
The migration consisted of multiple steps. The XenForo documentation wasn’t up-to-date unfortunately so Xyon used
a lot of her free time to reverse engineer some of the parts.
We had to map add-ons to the correct OF user, which was not always possible due to legacy reasons. Of course, it’s possible to assign the add-ons to the right users so they can fully manage their content again. Let Xyon or me know if you have an add-on that’s mapped to “Unknown OHM Addon Dev”. We will correct it for you.
Finally, it might be necessary to edit/update the resource to make it look a bit better after the initial migration.
The original image of an add-on is now embedded in the description of the add-on. You can download it, edit your add-on and attach it as an icon. No issue if you don't do this, it'll just look a bit better.
With this all being said I’d like to extend a huge thank-you to
@Xyon. Like I’ve said a couple of times before she’s don a tremendous job getting this done while also having to work and take care of kids.
Some of the community members also offered their help.
We were not able to make use of their requests at this time, but it's highly appreciated.
What’s next
We still want to move OF as a whole to a different infra, but we didn’t want to do it at the same time.
This is a move from A to B, we’ve had the migration part some 2 years ago when we moved away from vBulletin. It should be fairly straight forward (famous last words).
