That is really a question for Infra but they are generally ok with it in my experience. As long as they have access should they need it, I think they would greenlight it. Recommend you subscribe and email [email protected] and ask.
Regards, KAM On 2/28/2019 10:09 AM, SHUANG SU wrote: > Kevin, > > Thanks for the idea. I think it would be good if the donated cloud service > located in China can be used. > > But there is one more thing I am not clear is if we use servers provided by > Huawei, > is the deployment process totally self-service? That is, when we update the > website periodically, > we can do it all by ourselves without any communication with the cloud > administrators or > operators. (Because in my experience, the communication work makes the > deployment > inefficient and unreliable, especially when the deployments are > performed periodically.) > > Thanks, > ------------------------------ > Su Shuang (100pah) > ------------------------------ > > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 22:44, Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ovilia, >> >> BTW, odd Westerner question. You write your name as Zhang Wenli and >> your email as Ovilia. Could you please tell me more about that? Which >> is your First Name, Last Name and possibly a Nickname? For me, for >> example, Kevin is my first name, Andrew is my middle name, McGrail is my >> last name (or family name) and KAM is my initials / nickname in one. >> I'm trying to learn what name you like to be called and I'm worried >> sometimes I have no idea if I am calling you by your last name, first >> name, nickname or something else :-) >> >>> We choose Baidu Tongji (meaning Analytics) out of the consideration of >> the >>> accessibility to Google products in China. >> One 3rd party versus another as far as I'm concerned so the same >> question I would ask if it was Google Analytics. Question: is the >> account for that a role-based account shared for the podling PMC to >> access so that it is accessible to all and stays with the project? >> >> >>> As Kevin suggested, Huawei provided servers for Apache that we may use. >>> That's a great idea. >>> But just to be clear, are the servers provided in the form of Huawei >> Cloud >>> [1] that can be assumed to be accessed all the time, or something like an >>> SSH account which Huawei could deauthorize afterward? If it's in the >> latter >>> form, I guess that's pretty much like we are facing today, only that the >>> server is on Baidu rather than Huawei. >> Yes and no. If we went that route of using Huawei, we would be formally >> asking them under the ASF targeted sponsorship policy >> ( >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JhZEcty2fSx7ZxiBs41j3qOUrqsA7TvKmQ13ZZ61lJY/edit >> ) >> and a formal agreement would be created so it couldn't just be pulled >> out from under. This is one of the reasons we ask for 3 year agreements >> for hosting donations to promote stability. >> >> If Baidu is willing to donate some services, that's feasible to pursue >> especially echarts as a PMC is requesting and will use it. I just >> didn't know they, Baidu, provided those services too. If Baidu is >> willing to donate things, you could get root access to the box over to >> infra, use resources from Baidu and as I described, we could use a >> different URL for that mirror server to give faster access to the people >> in China. It will have to be an alternate URL though like we discussed >> and it should be a mirror of the same info on the main URL, but faster :-) >> >> Regards, >> >> KAM >> >> -- >> Kevin A. McGrail >> Member, Apache Software Foundation >> Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
