Hi All, I currently planning a move of the openscenegraph.org to a new server. No decisions yet on the new location of the server. Suggestions welcome.
As part of the move I am looking to for assistance from members of the community to help out admin migration and subsequent maintenance duties for the server. Rainer Order has kindly volunteered to help the move, and will be applying his PHP and PmWiki skills as he did setting up the current wiki website. We need skills in the area of cvs/svn and mailman migration though. The new server hosts might also provide some of services in this area, but since there are lots of unknowns in this direction I'd like to if we will be able to cover the skills ourselves. Another possibility is for me to hire a local admin on a part time basis, finding a admin with all the required is no small task though :-) With the move I am thinking about using it as an opportunity to bring in new systems such as svn. We've talked about it for quite some while, but never gone for it, lets face it cvs has been a pretty good work horse for us, not perfect but pretty stable. Looking at prior accounts of cvs->svn migration it doesn't sound too awkward, but there are a few gotcha's that might catch us out with migrating a big project like OpenSceneGraph, with it containing losts of source, images, VS projects etc. Migrating the history is also essential. Having expertise at hand that has done such migrations before would be very, very useful, and may well save us all a lot of pain. Migration of mailing lists is also not a trivial matter so having expertise on hand that has done it before would be great. Again history is an important factor. It might be that we'd want to migrate to a new style of mail/forum support, I'm open to this too. It could even be most effective to use another server for mail/forum support such as google groups. Again getting the history in is an issue. Even if you can't help out directly with the setup, migration and maintenance of the new server, suggestions on the approach to take would be very useful. If you feel like helping out then please email me directly, put yourself forward on this list. Once things start to get under way for real I'd like to use the new osg-crew mailing list to coordinate the efforts. osg-crew is over on groupgroups so if we screw up on the migration and the openscenegraph.org lists falter we'll still be able to keep chatting to resolve the problems asap. I have put up a page on the wiki on the topic of this Server work: http://openscenegraph.org/osgwiki/pmwiki.php/Tasks/Server Thanks in advance for your help ;-) Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
