[postgis-devel] Re: PostGIS infrastructure

[Kevin Neufeld]

It's back up again.

Yeah, Mark, I hear you.  And having more than a couple of people with root access to such an environment (esp. in 
different time zones) would indeed be welcome.

I was just talking with a few folks here and we would be OK with the postgis repository moving elsewhere.  We realize 
that the hosting box is incredibly old and in *desperate* need of TLC.  We are also extremely busy and find it tough to 
give the box the attention it needs.

So, we're open the idea.  Come up with a strategy and specifics, and we'll try to work out the details.

Cheers,
Kevin

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Kevin Neufeld wrote:
> 
>> Hi all, I just noticed that the svn repository is out of commission.  
>> We're working to get this back online asap.  Thanx for bearing with us.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kevin
> 
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> One of the conversations we had at the code-sprint was a discussion of 
> infrastructure issues, in particular related to bug tracking/SVN/wiki 
> integration.
> 
> AIUI the issue here is that the postgis web/SVN server runs an old 
> version of BSD which has the following issues:
> 
> 
> i) it suffers from a file handle leak which often causes outages like this
> 
> ii) we can't run Trac or newer versions of SVN
> 
> 
> The lack of integration between bug tracking/SVN and the inability to 
> view changesets on the web is something that developers do notice and 
> struggle with on a regular basis. As I see it, the potential solutions are:
> 
> 
> i) bug Refractions until they upgrade the server :)
> 
> ii) move SVN hosting to an external server (e.g. 
> postgresql.org/osgeo.org) and change svn.refractions.net to point to it.
> 
> 
> As a potential solution, I'm leaning slightly towards ii) since there is 
> potential for other non-Refractions people to have root access to the 
> server, and hence someone in another timezone can restart things if they 
> break (i.e. if you're on holiday we don't have to ring you up and bug 
> you all the time!).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
>