[SAC] budget 2017

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> In response to the board request, I'd like to propose that for 2017
> we request budget for infrastructure consolidation, maintainance
> and growth.
>
> Example of things that should be addressed:
>
>  - Upgrading TRAC to latest release
>    https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1816

+1

>  - Adding LDAP support to the wiki
>    https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/165

+1 (strong one, priority even since the current way of manual
authorization does not scale well)

>  - Mailman "message held" form action is http
>    https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1677

+1

>  - Add backup for tracsvn:/home/git/gogs/data
>    https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1657

+1

>  - Setup more VMs for testing new services

+1

In addition: We should check why the trac machine is so slow lately.
Probably some services on that machine need to me migrated to a
different one?

> Previous years budget can be found here:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Budget
>
> The 2016 one is still unspent, btw, due to lack of decision upon
> the second sysadmin contract (which I proposed as a agenda point
> for a never made september meeting: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Sep2016)
> I'll make a motion for that part.

Yes, thanks.

> I think 2017 could benefit from a further raise in budget,
> starting from 15K. What do you think ?

+1

Markus