* Dave Neary <[email protected]> [2012-10-09 09:39]: > Hi board, > > The infra team have agreed that this is a good approach to follow. > > Alter Way have clarified that thir offer stands even if we host our > wiki and website on OpenShift rather than on their oVirt cloud > service. > > At this point, I need board approval of this hosting move, and the > counter-part which Alter Way are requesting (namely, acknowledgement > on the footer of pages of hosted services (Jenkins, Gerrit), > acknowledgement as a sponsor of the project on the "Project > supporters" page, and to have their H2O service be included as a > case study of an oVirt deployment on oVirt.org > > Personally I think this is all very reasonable.
I agree as well. +1 > > I will be meeting Alter Way on Thursday in Paris - may I set a 2 day > deadline for feedback and approvals/disapprovals, and consider the > board concensus position at the end of that period (10:00 EST > Thursday)? > > Thanks, > Dave. > > On 10/02/2012 07:24 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >Alter Way (oVirt user and community member, French company) have > >generously offered to host some of our services as part of their efforts > >to support the project. > > > >To give some background: The company is preparing a cloud offering based > >on oVirt nightlies running on Fedora. They are a hosting company (among > >other things) based in Paris, France. > > > >We talked to them about our needs for Jenkins, and after getting > >reassurance on the bandwidth requirements for the Jenkins server, they > >have ade the following offer: > > > >Alter Way will provide: > > - For Jenkins, 2 Bi Quad servers (with Jenkins running on bare metal) > >with 8 or 16 GB of RAM each and 2 fast 146 GB disks each, with RAID 10 > >for the 4 disks > > - For other services (Gerrit, Mailman, wiki, git): 1 or 2 VMs hosted > >on oVirt > > > >In return, they would like: > > - Recognition of the hosting in the page footer of the hosted services > > - Recognition as a project sponsor on the project sponsors and > >supporters page > > - The also offer to have their cloud service serve as a case study for > >the oVirt project > > > >I did discuss with Stéphane Vincent, their representative, that we might > >want to host some services elsewhere - we have previously talked about > >hosting the website on OpenShift. I've asked him (and am waiting for > >clarification) on whether that might affect their offer. > > > >In the meantime, I would like the opinions of the infra team - does this > >offer satisfy our needs and requirements for Jenkins? If that's the > >case, I would like to ask the board if they approve of the offer and the > >request to recognise Alter Way as a sponsor of the project? > > > >I will be seeing Alter way again next week at the Open World Forum, it > >would be really great if we could finalise this by then, and concentrate > >on getting a basic hosting agreement in place by then. > > > >Thank you all, > >Dave. > > > > -- > Dave Neary > Community Action and Impact > Open Source and Standards, Red Hat > Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx [email protected] _______________________________________________ Board mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board
