[SAC] Timeline for updating the OSGeo VMs?

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2013 01:26 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> Hi SAC,
>>
>> what is our policy/time line for updating the various VMs to the
>> recent Debian version?
>> Has this been discussed perhaps at the Nottingham conference?
>>
>> Best
>> Markus
>
> If we have volunteers, a schedule and a plan then upgrading is good.
> I'm not actually sure we finished upgrading all the VMs from 5 to 6

trac and live are still:
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0

the others are Debian 6 except for www.osgeo.org which is an antique RHEL.

> and this is the first discussion of going to 7.
>
> Priority right now is actually getting our new backup hardware online.

Any news on that?

> Which would enable some more space for possibly building replacement VMs
> in cases where direct upgrades are too complicated.

Yes. Still the Deb5 should be brought soon to Deb6 (IMHO).

Markus