On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 18:01:43 +0100 Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> said:
> Hi Carsten, > > In terms of the HDD's and fan issues have those all been resolved? see my mails recently. fan isn't an issue right now but sata controller/connectors are. osuosl have needed root access and ipmi access to sanely help with this. i'm working on it. waiting now on osuosl to try some things after i fixed ipmi on friday. > On 16/12/2018, 14:32, "Carsten Haitzler" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 14:07:55 +0100 Jonathan Aquilina > <[email protected]> said: > > > I have no problem with that at all if it helps to keep the project > > moving forward. What is being done about simplifying the complexity of > > all the infrastructure currently setup and in use? > > > > If we are going to be rebuilding why don’t we go with a centos > > infrastructure? Something secure and reliable and stable with 10 year > > support > > not useful for us as we regularly want to run things that need newer > things and these needs then updates to 10 years is not useful to us IMHO. > > what is probably better is really ubuntu. 6 monthly upgrades, big userbase > tested and thus can stay relatively up to date with fairly minimal effort. > > see my other email - getting e5 back to full strength is first. i've > gotten an ipmi console - the java app though doesn't allow any kbd input - > just displays. pretty useless but ipmi serial console does work. so i was > hoping that will work for a re-install. but first get the sata stuff sorted > one way or another. > > On 15/12/2018, 13:58, "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:40:14 +0100 Jonathan Aquilina > > <[email protected]> said: > > > > i can arrange you get vpn access to osuosl then the rest is ipmi > > (there is a web ui and cmdline too). that's all that's needed (other > > than needing to know admin passwd :)). > > > > > Hi Stephen, > > > > > > What can I do to start getting things going in a new direction. > > > The advantage with Linode is that then I can give access to > > > multiple individuals to access the linode manager and other > > > aspects of the server. > > > > > > Are we going to go forward with this change? I am very willing to > > > sponsor all this. > > > > > > On 13/12/2018, 18:38, "Stephen Houston" <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > A few months ago Mike set up a test instance of gitlab on a > > > server for us... After testing and the like, I set up a slowvote > > > on Phab that covered 4 options: > > > > > > Gitlab with new infra > > > Gitlab with current infra > > > Phab with new infra > > > Phab with current infra > > > > > > The overwhelming support was for new infra. As in every > > > single vote except for one wanted new infra. The majority also > > > wanted gitlab, but for the sake of this email, that is irrelevant. > > > > > > The arguments against new infra, having it sponsored, cloud, > > > etc... keep being that if someone leaves the project, or the > > > owners of the servers changes, or policies change, or etc... that > > > we might lose access. To me this seems like an incredibly poor > > > argument right now especially considering that we have been > > > experiencing this very thing and even worse with our own current > > > infra. The problems I have seen are that we: > > > A. Failed at maintaining the physical aspects of our server. > > > B. Keep having continued downtime over and over and over > > > again. C. Can never get in touch with or get a response from our > > > server admin in any kind of remotely adequate timeframe. > > > > > > Insanity is often said to be defined as doing the same thing > > > over and over again expecting a different result. It is time to > > > have an open mind to the needs/wants of this community and make a > > > change. > > > Stephen > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" > > -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] > > > > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
