I think this call should also go to our Local Chapters around the world (from traveling to local chapters, I know that they face challenges as our infrastructure is currently just based in North America).
Sending... -jeff On 2014-04-18, 8:50 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > Calling all Project Steering Committees, SAC is looking at the future of > OSGeo hosted services. Please chime in with your wants and needs for the > next 3-5 years. We want to maximize services while being efficient about > effort (pooling sys admin time amongst projects). > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2014 > > More details below. > > Thanks, > Alex > OSGeo Sys Admin Committee Chair > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 > Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:25:41 -0700 > From: Alex Mandel <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected], System Administration Committee > Discussion/OSGeo <[email protected]> > To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo <[email protected]> > > In light of our recent hardware woes, the ending of osgeo1, and the age > of current machines (3-4yrs) I think it's time to start planning what to > do next. > > We do have budget, and the board is interested in ideas and additional > funding is not out of the question. > >>From my perspective, I think we need: > 1. To survey PSC of all projects to assess what services we should > offer. Do we need buildbots, sphinx builds, mail service, issue > tracking, various CMS/wiki, mirrors, bandwidth for downloads? Now that > everyone is love with Github (any word on what the next hot host will > be), are there things we should retire? > > 2. Look at other hosting options besides physical machines in one place. > Renting space like QGIS or OSM, racking machines elsewhere, getting > OSGeo-ICA labs to mirror. If we do mirror look at GeoCDN and MirrorBrain > for geo-ip redirection balancing. > > 3. Look at new hardware that better meets the needs. RAID is nice but > not always the right answer to needs as we discovered recently. We also > didn't buy specific to Ganeti/Cloud style setups where hotcopy failover > works best with multiple identical machines, and lots of smaller disks > with single disks per VM keeps i/o from competing (RAID is handled in > mirror mode via DRBD over the network between nodes). > > Anyone want to tackle making a short survey for Projects to describe > their needs and wishes? > > > All ideas welcome, we'll pool it all into proposal and a wiki page > before deciding on anything. > > Thanks, > Alex > __________ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
