[SAC] Re: [OSGeo] #203: {download|projects}.osgeo.org: install htdig

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#203: {download|projects}.osgeo.org: install htdig
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  Reporter:  neteler  |       Owner:  sac@…              
      Type:  task     |      Status:  reopened           
  Priority:  normal   |   Component:  Systems Admin      
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  htdig, grass       
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Comment(by crschmidt):

 Hamish,

 SAC's responsibilities are:
  * Maintenance of infrastructure
  * Maintaining SAC-hosted services (trac, SVN, osgeo.org)
  * Maintaining DNS, etc.
  * Helping to maintain hardware for projects
  * Helping to install software for projects when needed.

 The htdig software in question was installed on the machine which
 grass.osgeo.org is hosted on.

 Having GRASS on the projects VM does not mean that OSGeo is responsible
 for GRASS website maintenance; instead, it means that SAC will provide
 members with access to do the maintenance they need. As far as I
 understand, there is no one else currently looking to use htdig on the
 projects VM, so as far as that is concerned, GRASS is free to 'do with as
 we please' in that regard. (If there was a conflict over this, SAC would
 step in to help mediate, and possibly create a new VM if it was impossible
 to come to a reasonable conclusion to the satisfaction of the conflict.)

 The maintainership of the GRASS website and its various components falls
 outside the realm of SAC's responsibilities, and in the hands of GRASS
 project members. If you wish to extend this capabilty, that is up to GRASS
 members.

 Unless SAC either:
  1. Takes on a general purpose search project for projects, maintaining
 htdig to search their content or
  2. Takes over maintainership of the GRASS project website

 This project remains solidly in the hands of GRASS members, and it is
 unreasonable to expect that SAC will take on the task of setting this
 software up; this is true now, and will be true on the new hardware as
 well.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/203#comment:6>
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