[SAC] [MOTION] Grant sysadmin contract to Martin Spott

[Alex M]

I'd like to put this vote on hold for a day or two until I can get a
report from the Treasurer making sure we actually have the amount for
this within our current budget. Hopefully I'll have those numbers before
the meeting tomorrow.

More responses below...inline.

On 11/07/2017 10:59 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:05:16AM -0800, Alex M wrote:
>> I'm in favor of the proposal. However we only have 11 tickets marked
>> higher than "normal", (not all are actually that hard of tasks). So I
>> think we need to clarify the main topics of interest, SSL and LDAP seem
>> to be 2 of the bigs things, followed by system configuration issues like
>> download disk space, retiring osgeo4, containers or virtualization on
>> osgeo6.
> 
> My idea is we'd all help setting those priorities in tickets, Martin
> included (he would file tickets for proposals).
> For sure SSL is a fundamental topic (it's preventing people from using
> the services).
>

Sounds like an agenda/task item for the meeting is to get more people to
go through tickets, and see if we can resolve and correctly mark priority.

>> We should also clarify if we want the hours to go as fast as
>> possible or have some expectation of a time window under which it will
>> be done.
> 
> I would expect between 1 and 2 months of elapsed time to complete
> the hours.
> 

Ok, I'd like the contract to be flexible so I suggest we put a deadline
of spending the hours within 2 months. Looks like your previous contract
only had it at 1 month.

>> Also should time spent on normal management and monitoring be excluded,
>> system updates, backups etc?
> 
> I don't think so, why should them ? If any volunteer is already doing
> this it can be announced on this list so the task is taken off Martin's
> plate.
> 

I was thinking of tasks Martin currently does under volunteered hours.

Thanks,
Alex

> --strk;
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> On 11/07/2017 01:37 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>> This is an official motion to grant a contract for 50 hours
>>> of sysadmin work on OSGeo machines to Martin Spott (via his employer)
>>> for a total of 5000 EUR.
>>>
>>> The work will consist in going through trac tickets in priority order
>>> and close as many as possible while documenting proceedings and
>>> suggesting more actions as they are found useful.
>>>
>>> Will start with my +1
>>>
>>> --strk;
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:39:06PM +0100, Martin Spott wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 09:10:57AM +1300, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Martin: do you confirm you're up for the job ?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I confirm my employer is interested in contracting with OSGeo to sell
>>>> 50 hours of my work time to adress OSGeo SAC issues, at an hourly rate of
>>>> 100 EUR
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