Hi,
I am being fed up with the state of our infrastructure lately. The RPMrepo
website is down, and the RPMforge wiki is hosted there. This is a theme
recurring every XX months. I myself neglected the infrastructure (as long
as it works!), simply because I lack the time to maintain it.
But since it is becoming a liability and we have more people involved, I
want to fix this once and for all, I am looking for a few donated managed
servers that we can set up so a single glitch does not rip out some of our
infrastructure.
I am not just looking for hardware, I am looking for hardware that is
managed, internet connected and the bandwidth. This hardware would be used
as:
- KVM hosts with VMs for RPMforge and ELRepo
+ an automated buildsystem (lack of HW now caused me to manually
trigger builds)
+ website, wiki, mailinglists, subversion, repositories
+ test-systems for automated package-testing/building/infrastructure
- tier1/tier2 (managed) mirrors for RPMforge and ELRepo
+ a tiered setup, depending on the hardware/bandwidth
Next to this, I will be looking for some people I can trust for
maintaining this infrastructure as well. And this requires us to organize
ourselves better.
The lack of proper infrastructure/hardware always limited what we could do
as a team. And this resulted in poor automation where in theory we could
be doing a superb job ! We all know where our soft spots are: unresolved
deps, single point of failure (me), compatibility with other repos, few
good mirrors, hard to contribute, ...
Before the end of the year I would like to have a much more professional
RPMforge project, seeing ELRepo in action gives me hope that we can pull
this off with RPMforge as well :-) And I will commit time the coming
months to spend on this.
I am sorry to have to ask for this, but if your company makes use of
RPMforge, it will directly benefit from a more professional RPMforge
project. Better tools will allow us to engage more people more
efficiently.
Thanks in advance for your consideration !
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-- dag wieers, [email protected], http://dag.wieers.com/ --
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