[GRASS-dev] GRASS / OSGeo System Services

[Markus Neteler]

Frank,

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> The OSGeo System Administration Committee (SAC) is working on migrating
> some of our services to OSL, to a virtual machine based environment.
>
> At this point it becomes practical to offer projects that need substantial
> services beyond those normally provided by OSGeo/SAC with a virtual machine
> they can manage themselves within their project - if there is a need.
>
> My question is whether there is a need for this for the GRASS project.
>
> Currently I am aware of GRASS having special services hosted on
> xblade14 at telascience, including a static web site that is pulled from
> svn and a mediawiki wiki running against mysql.  Beyond that GRASS also
> uses standard OSGeo services for Trac, SVN, mailing lists, and the download
> site.
>
> Does the GRASS project have additional custom system services hosted at
> telascience or elsewhere that you would be interested in hosting in a
> project managed VM?  Are there service you would like to deploy but have
> held back for lack of somewhere stable and self-managed to put them?

We are creating on the telascience machine binary snapshots and the
programmer's manual which requires compilation.

At this point, would that lead to a VM?

Best regards,
Markus