Hi all - --- TL;DR - All of the Boost servers are moving. Are there bad dates for you? Are you concerned about possible monthly cost? ---
== Why == In case you missed it previously, IU's sponsor of the open source resources is moving to Digipen. We thank IU for their very generous support over the years. As such, projects formerly hosted at IU are moving to new homes. Ciere's IT department has been working with DongInn at IU to complete the migration. Servers and functionality was migrated in November. Tests have been performed to verify that the new system is operating properly. The new server resources are syncing with IU's data on a regular basis. == When == That is one of the main questions of this email. We can move the websites immediately. They have been migrated and tested and are sync'ing regularly. The mail lists need some administrative (credit card) love but have also been migrated, tested, and have been sync'ing regularly for some time. We prefer not to make the move during the middle of a release. Are there sets of days that we should black-out? == What is moving == IU hosts mail lists and web sites. The following resources have been migrated: Mail Lists : wowbagger is the IU instance that hosted mail lists. It has a 200GB storage volume attached to maintain the strorage of the mailing list archives and other functions. Specific lists that are part of wowbagger and have been migrated to a cloud instance by the same name are: - Boost - Boost developers' mailing list - Boost-announce - Boost announce-only mailing list - Boost-bugs - Bugs reported/updated through Boost's Trac - Boost-build - Boost.Build developer's and user's list - Boost-cmake - Discussion of the CMake-based build system for Boost - Boost-commit - Boost Subversion commit messages - Boost-docs - Discussion of Boost Documentation - Boost-Interest - Moderated announcements of interest to the Boost community. - Boost-maint - Boost community maintenance mailing list - Boost-mpi - Discussion of Boost.MPI development - Boost-test - Test list for the boost mailing lists - Boost-Testing - Running Boost regression tests - Boost-users - Boost Users mailing list - Geometry - Boost.Geometry library mailing list - glas - Generic Linear Algebra Software - Noreply - [no description available] - osl-mailman - [no description available] - Osl-test2 - [no description available] - proto - Discussions about Boost.Proto and DSEL design - test - [no description available] - test-list - [no description available] - threads-devel - Discussions about the boost.thread library - ublas - ublas mailing list Web sites: The following web sites have been migrated to a cloud instance. - beta.boost.org - boostcon.boost.org - lists.boost.org - svn.boost.org - wiki.boost.org - www.boostcon.org - www.boost.org == Where is it moving? == Rackspace has donated cloud resources to the Software Freedom Conservancy for their member projects. Boost receives $2000/month of donated cloud services which were mostly being unused. Ciere spends about $25k/month with Rackspace and our account and technical managers have been helpful in navigating the SFC donation. In addition to the normal cloud services, we are utilizing MailGun (a Rackspace service similar to SendGrid and the ilk) for sending of mass emails. Through the SFC donation, we receive 50k free emails a month. More on this in the mail list cost details below. == Web Server Costs == The web server cost should easily fall into the resources donated by Rackspace. The exact sizing for bandwidth is still a little "unknown" and we are refining our estimates; however, we currently expect the == Mail List Costs == The FSC relationship gets us 50k of free emails per month. A heavy month sees just under 2M emails. If the lists maintain that high volume, it would cost ~$670/month for mail list traffic. Based on a quick look at the logs, some months will be within the 50k emails. Boost can likely support the monthly expense without doing any promotion. Optionally, we can solicit for corporate sponsorship which would include a one-line footer in the outgoing emails. I suspect Ciere might be willing to support this. == Other == Ciere purchased a multi-year wildcard certificate for Boost sometime ago. There has been some complaint about our web site not being https ... we can change that over post migration. == What I need to know == Are there black-out dates for the migration of the MLs or web sites or both? We need formal authorization from the steering committee for the ~$700/month email expense to maintain the MLs. Ciere will continue to donate resources to perform administration. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Boost Steering Committee" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
