[OpenLayers-Dev] bus number (regarding infrastructure)
Tim Schaub
tschaub at opengeo.org
Thu Mar 5 19:33:31 EST 2009
Hey-
Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:21:48PM -0700, Tim Schaub wrote:
>> Hey-
>>
>> MetaCarta graciously hosts our project infrastructure.
>>
>> Chris handles all (or nearly all) admin work. I assume this is all in
>> his free time.
>
> The OpenLayers server maintenance -- that is, maintaining the website
> itself -- is supported by MetaCarta, but almost all other work is done
> in my 'free time'. (So, mostly right, but if the website dies, I get a
> phone call, even if I am on vacation. :))
>
>> Erik has taken responsibility for accepting license agreements and trac
>> account requests. I assume he manually adds people to an htpasswd file
>> when doing the latter. I suggested the AccountManager plugin to remove
>> the manual step - but I'm not sure exactly how permissions are handled
>> (for sandbox or core contributions).
>>
>> With Erik's departure, we reduce our bus number by one - with respect to
>> the number of people with access to our project infrastructure.
>>
>> I'd like to hear discussion again on the following:
>> 1) Giving access to non-MetaCarta employees for the current servers.
>
> This one can't really happen with our current setup.
>
>> 2) Moving to OSGeo infrastructure.
>
> This is the one I'd prefer. I'm glad to do it if someone else volunteers
> a weekend of time to help. It will probably require at least some prep
> work, and an acceptance of the community of downtime during the
> transition. (My biggest reason for not transitioning yet is becasue i
> think there will be a period of hours/days/possibly a week during which
> we work out kinks, and I get enough abuse as is on the project that I
> don't want to invite more on my own.)
>
> If someone else is interested, the best thing to do is to:
> * Speak up here
Great. I'm interested in helping out.
> * Help concoct a plan
I agree about waiting until after 2.8 for any downtime. If we can do
any work before, I'll be more available at the end of next week.
I look forward to talking more detail later.
Tim
> * Join the SAC committee list on the osgeo servers, and start
> discussing it
>
> Over the past year, I have worked out most of the technical kinks to the
> OSGeo infrastructure with regard to OSGeo in prep for us moving thee, so
> at this point, it's just accepting the downtime and moving forward.
>
> I would propose that we wait to have this downtime until *after* 2.8.
> Currently, our milestone needs to have 4 tickets a day closed or moved
> in order to get us to a release on time, and migrating to OSGeo takes
> away valuable time towards that goal.
>
>
>> I guess my motivation boils down to this: if Chris ever decides to take
>> a real vacation, nobody can do squat to manage the infrastructure (for
>> practical purposes).
>
> Agreed. This has been weighing on my mind, and motivated the change to
> the account admin changes.
>
> Note that technically, John Frank also has access to the servers, and
> the documentation for managing them is mostly in the wiki, but I agree
> that this is only a last-defense; informative in case I *actually*
> get hit by a bus before we move to OSGeo, but I completely
> agree we should move to OSGeo long term.
>
> Regards,
--
Tim Schaub
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