Hey- Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:21:48PM -0700, Tim Schaub wrote: >> Hey- >> >> MetaCarta graciously hosts our project infrastructure. >> >> Chris handles all (or nearly all) admin work. I assume this is all in >> his free time. > > The OpenLayers server maintenance -- that is, maintaining the website > itself -- is supported by MetaCarta, but almost all other work is done > in my 'free time'. (So, mostly right, but if the website dies, I get a > phone call, even if I am on vacation. :)) > >> Erik has taken responsibility for accepting license agreements and trac >> account requests. I assume he manually adds people to an htpasswd file >> when doing the latter. I suggested the AccountManager plugin to remove >> the manual step - but I'm not sure exactly how permissions are handled >> (for sandbox or core contributions). >> >> With Erik's departure, we reduce our bus number by one - with respect to >> the number of people with access to our project infrastructure. >> >> I'd like to hear discussion again on the following: >> 1) Giving access to non-MetaCarta employees for the current servers. > > This one can't really happen with our current setup. > >> 2) Moving to OSGeo infrastructure. > > This is the one I'd prefer. I'm glad to do it if someone else volunteers > a weekend of time to help. It will probably require at least some prep > work, and an acceptance of the community of downtime during the > transition. (My biggest reason for not transitioning yet is becasue i > think there will be a period of hours/days/possibly a week during which > we work out kinks, and I get enough abuse as is on the project that I > don't want to invite more on my own.) > > If someone else is interested, the best thing to do is to: > * Speak up here
Great. I'm interested in helping out. > * Help concoct a plan I agree about waiting until after 2.8 for any downtime. If we can do any work before, I'll be more available at the end of next week. I look forward to talking more detail later. Tim > * Join the SAC committee list on the osgeo servers, and start > discussing it > > Over the past year, I have worked out most of the technical kinks to the > OSGeo infrastructure with regard to OSGeo in prep for us moving thee, so > at this point, it's just accepting the downtime and moving forward. > > I would propose that we wait to have this downtime until *after* 2.8. > Currently, our milestone needs to have 4 tickets a day closed or moved > in order to get us to a release on time, and migrating to OSGeo takes > away valuable time towards that goal. > > >> I guess my motivation boils down to this: if Chris ever decides to take >> a real vacation, nobody can do squat to manage the infrastructure (for >> practical purposes). > > Agreed. This has been weighing on my mind, and motivated the change to > the account admin changes. > > Note that technically, John Frank also has access to the servers, and > the documentation for managing them is mostly in the wiki, but I agree > that this is only a last-defense; informative in case I *actually* > get hit by a bus before we move to OSGeo, but I completely > agree we should move to OSGeo long term. > > Regards, -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
