
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
This fixes a problem that #43 seems to have triggered for myself and @phantomdata, whereby no project that uses
brew setup-nginx-confin its bootstrap can successfully interpolate the ERB file. I tested this with three separate projects (halp, githubber.tv and docsotron), and all three returned similar errors:The variable changes, but the stack trace is the same. The problem seems to be that ERB doesn't have access to the local variables set up in the script, and so the
bindingneeds to be passed in to access them.This fixes all three projects... but what I can't figure out is why it worked in the first place, and why the change in #43 would've broken it. Most of the documentation/howtos I looked up suggested that passing in the current
bindingtoresultwas required if you needed access to local variables, and I haven't seen anything just yet that suggests the binding wouldn't be necessary in any circumstance. Only thing I can think of is some sort of not-particularly visible setting or library version change, but I haven't narrowed that down yet.So that's a bit of a stumper, but this does fix the problem, so going to go ahead and get some👀 (and maybe other 💭 ) on it 😅
cc: @MikeMcQuaid for review