[GRASS-dev] GRASS / OSGeo System Services

[Frank Warmerdam]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> 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?

Markus,

Those are not particularly demanding activities and could continue
to be done in the shared environment of the xblade14 blade, or a shared
VM for several projects on the new servers.

Best regards,
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