On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:48:24PM -0400, Schuyler Erle wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 14:39 -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:45:00PM -0400, Tim Schaub wrote: > > > > > > Wondering if others think a move to subversion 1.5 would be good. > > > > It doesn't look like Subversion 1.5 has been backported to Debian Etch > > (which is what the OL server uses), and I'd prefer not to install from > > sources other than debian repositories. > > Is this maybe time to reopen the discussion of moving to OSGeo > infrastructure?
That depends. * OpenLayers on its own consumes about 4x as much as all other OSGeo-hosted SVN/trac/websites put together. (Average of 5 hits/second compared to 1.25 hits/second.) In casual chatting, it was suggested that even if OpenLayers was to change trac/SVN hosting to OSGeo, the website should continue to be hosted elsewhere. (Weekly multiminute downtimes are simply not something that I think our current OpenLayers users would be happy with.) * OSGeo's hosting infrastructure is much less powerful than the MetaCarta provided infrastructure. (A big shoutout to MC on this one: We have extremely good bandwidth, and a very nice machine that we are hosted on.) This really shouldn't be a problem except that... * OSGeo's servers are currently in a state where they are consistently running low on resources due to an as-yet-undetermined source of high server load. * In either case, the server administrator is sort of the same: I've routinely been the member of SAC dealing with OSGeo's server resource problems, so if it broke, the same person would be fixing it. * OSGeo's server is running RHEL, which I have less ability to maintain, and also means that we'd still be dealing with the same issue of not having SVN 1.5 :) Some of these are actively being worked on within OSGeo, but for the time being, I see little practical benefit to switching hosting of our SVN/Trac/Website to OSGeo infrastructure. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
