Hand off to Liberapay

[chadwhitacre]

Reticketing from #1196 post-#1217 so we have a clear record.

• domains
  • gratipay.com
  • gratipay.news
  • gratipay.net
  • gratipay.org
  • gittip.com
  • grtp.co (if the registry won't protect it)
  • gttp.co (if the registry won't protect it)
• Twitter account
• database
• logo
• cash
• GitHub org (give admin permission to @Changaco and/or @liberapay-admin)
• publish final blog post about handoff

[chadwhitacre]

Reached out to .CO:

[chadwhitacre]

No response from .CO.

@Changaco I've emailed you transfer codes for the seven domains.

[chadwhitacre]

In general I had been thinking we'd take the last of our money and use it to pay for domain names for a few years to keep things online. We have $545 in the bank right now.

We are down to $486.26. Our current monthly costs are:

• $3.00 to DNSimple for DNS hosting
• $12.00 to PNC for our bank account

I think instead of paying for the domain names we should just give Liberapay the cash and let you use it as you would like.

Note that gratipay.news is supposed to renew on January 28 (six days). Depending on lockout timeframes we may need to renew that over here before transferring.

[Changaco]

@Changaco I've emailed you transfer codes for the seven domains.

I got them, but transferring all these domains to the registrar Liberapay uses would cost €143.50, so I suggest that you give me access to Gratipay's iwantmyname account instead.

[chadwhitacre]

Heard back from .CO:

Hi ¿

Thanks for contacting .CO — Please email them at [email protected] so that they can let you know if exist something in order to protect those domains from malicious takeover

Thank you, and we can’t wait to see what you are building on your new .CO!

• The .CO Team

That sounds to me like a breakdown in communication. :-/

[chadwhitacre]

give me access to Gratipay's iwantmyname account

Sounds like a plan. How about I change the email address and then you can generate a password reset? What address would you like me to use?

[Changaco]

admin at liberapay.com

[chadwhitacre]

Done!

[chadwhitacre]

@Changaco Since that address is already linked on Twitter, how about using admin+gratipay at liberapay.com over there?

[Changaco]

Got the confirmation email from iwantmyname.

Okay for admin+gratipay.

[chadwhitacre]

@Changaco Twitter handed over. I think we should do a final blog post on https://gratipay.news/ once the hand-off is complete. Let's coordinate on a Twitter announcement once we publish.

[chadwhitacre]

Re: logo the heart-coin shape is here:

https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/blob/master/www/assets/heart-coin.black.svg

That's probably the file you want, ya?

[Changaco]

Password resets done for iwantmyname and twitter.

[Changaco]

I think we should do a final blog post on https://gratipay.news/ once the hand-off is complete.

Sounds good to me.

[chadwhitacre]

Re: cash ... there may be costs associated with #1205. Let me see how far I can get with that in the next week or so before we make a final disbursement.

Re: database ... how do you want me to deliver this to you? We have weekly backups going back to the beginning. Do you want them all or just the final snapshot?

[Changaco]

Regarding the logo it's more of a symbolic hand-off. I guess you could formally state that the logo's copyright and implicit trademark are transferred to the Liberapay nonprofit organization, maybe that would please the lawyers (if we had any).

[Changaco]

Regarding the database I think the final snapshot is enough. Maybe throwing in the last backup before Gratipay 2.0 makes sense? I don't remember if any data was deleted.

[Changaco]

gratipay.news has been renewed.

I've updated the contact info so the next invoice will be addressed to me & Liberapay instead of Chad & Gratipay.

I've also checked and updated the settings of all domains:

• gttp.co was still pointing to the Digital Ocean IP address 198.199.102.190 which is now used by someone else, I've removed the A record
• all domains using the DNSimple name servers have been switched to iWantMyName or Cloudflare
• gratipay.com, .org, and .net are now in Liberapay's Cloudflare account

[chadwhitacre]

[chadwhitacre]

I formally state that the logo's copyright and implicit trademark are transferred to the Liberapay nonprofit organization. :)

[chadwhitacre]

[chadwhitacre]

Actually, that was probably premature. I think @clone1018 and I should be co-owners on the GitHub org until we resolve #1205 and close down the LLC.

[chadwhitacre]

Sooooo ... @Changaco would you mind reinviting us? 😬

[chadwhitacre]

🙇

[chadwhitacre]

I've reinvited @clone1018.

[chadwhitacre]

@Changaco Turns out Gratipay still has a DropBox account. Are you comfortable using DropBox to transfer the database file? If so I will email you a link.

[chadwhitacre]

Also, ftr, please preserve the MX records for gratipay.com so I can access email while we wind down the LLC.

[chadwhitacre]

@Changaco I just sent the latest. We may have deleted toots or something but tips and transfers should still be in there (we kept those for history pages). If you see missing tables from pre-2.0 that you want let me know and I can dig up another backup.

[Changaco]

Download and decompression complete. I'll do the rest tomorrow.

[Changaco]

I've loaded the DB backup and started to take a look.

One simple thing we could do with the data is bring back user pages on gratipay.com. A message explaining that Gratipay shut down would be nicer than a GitHub 404 page.

Another thing we could do is email users who sent or received money in 2017 to inform them of the Gratipay shutdown and the hand-off to Liberapay. That would be less than 600 people AFAICT.

[Changaco]

@chadwhitacre Do you want to write the blog post draft announcing the hand-off, or should I?

[chadwhitacre]

@Changaco If you've got the energy to, go ahead.

[Changaco]

gttp.co has expired. I guess that means auto-renewal was mistakenly disabled.

iwantmyname is asking for €84 to restore the domain, that's a €40 restore fee on top of the normal €44 yearly rent.

[chadwhitacre]

@Changaco Are you planning to just let it go?

[Changaco]

No, I've just been wondering if we can take the risk of dodging the restore fee by waiting or if we should just pay it.

I do wish we had some logs to see who is still using the domain, or at least how much it's used. I should have set that up when I had the chance.

[chadwhitacre]

No, I've just been wondering if we can take the risk of dodging the restore fee by waiting or if we should just pay it.

My sense is that it's a significant risk. I don't fully understand the ins and outs, but I know at least GoDaddy has an expiring domains auction.

[Changaco]

I've made the payment to restore the domain.

[Changaco]

The domains are now configured so that we have logs of requests. Currently there are around 6 requests per minute (both domains combined).

[Changaco]

(So far I haven't found the time and inspiration to write a blog post about the hand-off.)

[chadwhitacre]

Draft: Vive Liberapay!

Intending to publish today, as it is the sixth anniversary of the conception of Gittip.

[chadwhitacre]

Here are the final charts.json and payment-distribution.json from the Gratipay stats page:

https://gist.github.com/chadwhitacre/fff5a2c398e2c042bd41ed96419f3823

[chadwhitacre]

Here is some code to merge the Gratipay and Liberapay numbers together into a CSV. Amounts are converted to EUR based on historical rate data (from here), and dates are normalized to Monday to fold weeks together.

[chadwhitacre]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uCSbevDviHbMUsDn4syOpRmxLBs9GbFZyEQ82sKBNSM/edit?usp=sharing

[chadwhitacre]

Final draft: Vive Liberapay!

[chadwhitacre]

Fixed the title (yes?): Vive la Liberapay!

[chadwhitacre]

Published! 💃

https://gratipay.news/vive-la-liberapay-14057a25eacb

[Changaco]

Fixed the title (yes?)

No, "Vive Liberapay!" was correct. However "Vive la Liberapay!" could be considered a wordplay, it sounds somewhat like "Vive la Liberté!", so it's actually kind of funny.

[chadwhitacre]

@Changaco Sorry. 😞 Do you want me to change it or leave it? It's too late to change the URL slug unless we delete and recreate the post, which would break existing links (e.g.).

[chadwhitacre]

... but we can change the title easily enough.

[chadwhitacre]

I changed the title. I guess the URL path can be an inside joke. :o)

[techtonik]

https://gratipay.news/vive-la-liberapay-14057a25eacb

[Changaco]

https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/996329607463923712

[chadwhitacre]

Too bad Medium isn't picking up the chart image to include on Twitter ... I think it's cause the resolution is too low?

[prodoxx]

Woah!

[payfittest]

👍