[Qgis-psc] Helping on the QGIS system infrastructure

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Fyi, on current/old plugins site we run this little script every 30
minutes or so...

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/blob/master/scripts/get_plugins_xml

No need for celery, lettuce or other vegetables :-)

Regards,

Richard



On 6/14/20 2:44 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi Ale and Ludovic
> 
> Just on the plugin app: we have it already migrated (based on your
> branch). The first time we tried to deploy it the server was overwhelmed
> with incoming requests as we didn’t realise that the plugins.xml was
> generated as a static page.  Dimas (in CC) has written a celery task to
> generate the static page and we have it all orchestrated under rancher
> to deploy. We just need to restore the latest backup from the current
> server and ’switch’ over on the DNS. It would be great to have Dimas and
> Anita Hapsari and Ludovic hang out (Anita maintains the changelog site
> on a QGIS hetzner server) and also the feed server. All are managed
> under rancher with docker orchestration etc. If Ludovic is keen we can
> get him to help maintain, monitor and document the infrastructure which
> is still on our todo list.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 12 Jun 2020, at 12:31, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com
>> <mailto:apasotti at gmail.com>> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Alessandro Pasotti
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