On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:27 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Having now read the comment [1] I agree that while it may not be true about > French universities in general, it was certainly phrased as "my experience" > and was limited to the relatively narrow technical comment of who > administrators might feel comfortable allowing access to. I have already > been told multiple times here (not in France) that I wouldn't be allowed to > host things (even a patchbot) so while one might disagree on the wisdom of > such policies, it isn't limited to any particular nationality, and hopefully > we can move any further comments about [1] to sage-flame. > > However, these comments do touch on something substantive: > >> - suggesting that nobody was working on the migration while you know that >> we are working to set things up correctly (e.g. remote backup system), >> and considering that workers are at your disposal, this is extremly >> patronizing [2] >> - maintaining the confusion between university hosting and the very bad >> practices that led us to this situation [3] [4] > > > Namely that GCE might also have some drawbacks (notably, not being provided > free of charge? perhaps others) and that there were people hoping to make a > university system work. If there is a technical disagreement (or more than > technical) on cloud versus uni, I'm not getting into that, but I don't see > why we couldn't host in one place and backup in the other (indeed, > multiple). What does R do?
I had suggested in private that maybe we use the university systems at our disposal as a primary service, but with a replicated setup on GCE for backup. Nobody I suggested that to seemed interested. Erik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
