[Qgis-psc] Helping on the QGIS system infrastructure
Jonathan Moules
jonathan-lists at lightpear.com
Sat Jun 13 06:43:29 PDT 2020
Hi Richard,
I don't know what the nature of the university's infrastructure is, but
could they not provide VM's? Then QGIS can get root shell to the VM's
and do whatever, while the university covers the hardware side.
Just a thought,
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 2020-06-12 16:32, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> Hi Miguel,
>
> Thanks for the offer!
>
> But I think one of the reasons that we prefer to keep our own servers,
> is that we all have full shell access to them. I do not think University
> sysadmins will grant that to us.
>
> So theoretically we could use a server as a download server and let
> you/them rsync our releases (or mirror one of the repo's). But with that
> it is the same story: now we have full control over our servers, if we
> make a hickup or issue with a file we can ourselves remove it.
> That is harder if others rsync it etc.
>
> But maybe others have an idea for your offer?
> Please let us know.
>
> Regards, and again: thanks for the offer!
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
> On 6/12/20 5:22 PM, Miguel Sevilla-Callejo wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> From the "Free/Libre Software Office" of the University of Zaragoza they
>> have some infrastructure they could offer for FOSS projects such as QGIS.
>>
>> They maintain a tile server for OpenStreetMap, mirror important
>> GNU/Linux distros and some other FOSS projects.
>>
>> Some time ago even they offered more than mirroring of projects but
>> let's copy this message to them and tell them what's exactly you need &
>> they could offer.
>>
>> As an associate lecturer in Zaragoza University I asked for mirroring
>> OSGeo projects and they were interested but finally nobody replied from
>> there... so I'm sure they could help now.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Miguel
>>
>> --
>> *Miguel Sevilla-Callejo*
>> PhD in Geography
>> Associate Lecturer at Department of Geography & Territorial Planning,
>> University of Zaragoza
>> Member of QGIS España association board
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 15:17, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com
>> <mailto:luipir at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> FYI Zaragoza University (Spain) is available to offer its servers to
>> qgis project in case it's necessary. Please contact Miguel Sevilla
>> (in CC) in you need mirroring or more CI power.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Luigi Pirelli
>>
>> **************************************************************************************************
>> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli
>> * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli
>> * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir
>> * Book: Mastering QGIS3 - 3rd Edition
>> <https://www.packtpub.com/eu/application-development/mastering-geospatial-development-qgis-3x-third-edition>
>> * Hire a team: http://www.qcooperative.net
>> **************************************************************************************************
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 13:46, Richard Duivenvoorde
>> <rdmailings at duif.net <mailto:rdmailings at duif.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ludovic,
>>
>> Maybe we can do a small chat (irc or some video thing like
>> jitsi.meet)
>> so we know a little more about your skills and strengths.
>>
>> We have 3 or 4 servers, running:
>> - apache (serving sites and docs)
>> - docker (running plugin site (Django and Postgres), and building
>> website, one serving Stripe)
>> - debian
>> - we build stuff local, on server or travis.com <http://travis.com>
>> - tests (OGC etc)
>>
>> There is some stuff here:
>>
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Sysadmin
>>
>> So if this ticks something, contact me :-)
>>
>> We could get help with:
>> - moving the new plugins website to a whole new machine
>> - create makefiles to build docs automagicaly
>> - whatever comes to mind...
>>
>> For access on our servers I need your public key (and maybe a
>> preferred
>> nick/name) because we only give key-ssh-access.
>>
>> There is a email group (admin at qgis.org <mailto:admin at qgis.org>)
>> where certain messages go to,
>> and most other admins are subscribed to.
>>
>> So, Welcome and both Juergen (jef) and me (duiv) are often on
>> IRC, or
>> let's meet somewhere else.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>
>> On 6/12/20 1:31 PM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:52 PM Ludovic Hirlimann
>> <lhirlimann at 3liz.com <mailto:lhirlimann at 3liz.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 6/11/20 4:51 PM, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
>> >>
>> >> welcome Ludovic, probably you have more to share with Nathan
>> other thatn QGIs stuffs seeing this your blog post
>> https://www.hirlimann.net/Ludovic/carnet/?post/2020/03/28/%5BCritique%5D-Mousquets-et-Tomahawks-v2-et-Tuniques-Rouges
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 14:41, Alessandro Pasotti
>> <apasotti at gmail.com <mailto:apasotti at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 2:33 PM Etienne Trimaille
>> >>> <etienne.trimaille at gmail.com
>> <mailto:etienne.trimaille at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi everyone,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> My colleague Ludovic Hirlimann
>> https://github.com/lhirlimann is a system administrator at 3Liz.
>> >>>> He is currently managing all our servers. He wasn't using
>> QGIS before landing at 3liz but he would like to give some help
>> on the QGIS system backend.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I will let Ludovic present himself in CC. He started doing
>> some PR on GitHub.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> What would be the best way to get in touch with the tech
>> team? Tim, Jürgen and Richard? according to
>> https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/infrastructure.html
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Regards,
>> >>>> Etienne
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> That is great news!
>> >>>
>> >>> Warm welcome to Ludovic!!!
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for the warm welcome, I already feel @home.
>> >>
>> >> Let me Introduce myself. I'm ludovic , I've been playing with
>> computer for more than 30 years, been on the internet for at
>> least 29. I like open source because of the knowledge sharing
>> aspect (even if I didn't like the gpl , the first time I read it
>> (was on my atari)).
>> >>
>> >> I'm more of a sysadmin than of developer. So I'd like to lend
>> my skills and some of my time to help. Things I'm thinking
>> about: maintaining your infrastructure, pushing it forward. etc
>> ... I'd pobably have an interest in maintaining QGIS packages too.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Let me know how I can help and what needs to be done.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Hi Ludovic,
>> >
>> > if you want to help with infrastructure I think you can talk to
>> > Richard or Juergen, I'm not sure about the status of the
>> plugin app
>> > migration to python 3 and modern Django but if that's not yet
>> complete
>> > we could probably use some help there too.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>>
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