Hi folks, apologies for the large cross-posting.
Really short summary:
We are going to migrate to newer server hardware over the next few months. If you are an OBF developer (someone who has a login account on "pub" with CVS write permission to one or more repositories) then you'll need to make sure we have your most current email address so we can communicate the transition plan directly without spamming N number of mailing lists.
We need updated contact info in order to manage the transition.
Details below.
Long winded details:
Our existing servers (the developer CVS repository and the 2nd system that handles websites & mailing lists) are getting a bit old and more importantly are running older Linux distributions that are long past official support dates and are difficult to update, secure and maintain.
We have 2 brand new servers sitting online in a Boston area colocation facility and the various OBF sysadmins are starting to think about planning for transitioning services and user accounts.
First to move (I suspect) is going to be the pub.open-bio.org system which is the main CVS sourcecode repository for our various projects such as biojava, bioperl, moby, etc.
We think the transition will be pretty quick and transparent. It should not be all that hard to migrate the user accounts and copy over the CVS repository tree. We'll be writing scripts to automate the process and can run repeated migration tests before officially switching on the new system.
What CVS committers and developers need to do
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1. SSH login to pub.open-bio.org
2. Run the "chfn" command to edit your user info
3. Make sure a good email address is listed for the Office: or Phone: field. Info about your project and institution would be great as well but is not required.
In a week's time I'm going to capture all the email addresses listed and will insert them into a mailing list that we'll use to communicate our plans. This way we can speak to developers directly without cross posting to many mailing lists.
Any user account without a full name and working email address will still be migrated but we are going to lockout the password until we hear from the person in question.
What OBF Project Leaders need to do ==================================== 1. Login to pub.open-bio.org
2. Check /etc/groups for your project name and examine the users who have write access to your repository -- Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the usernames of any inactive members who can safely be deleted.
Regards, Chris one of the open-bio admins ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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