Dear community,
I'd like to inform you about a change in the infrastructure management
of TDF.
During the last 14 months, I have been responsible for running the
infrastructure behind our project, together with our wonderful admin
team, whom I'd like to thank for their passion, dedication and fantastic
work! Lots of things have happened: We started the e-mail, Jabber/XMPP
and SIP service, set up a planet, launched a new website, improved the
mailing lists and the wiki, began to change our underlying web server
technology, and also put the core infra platform on completely new
machines with a new base configuration - just to name a few of the items
we worked on as a team.
Effective March 1st, my role inside TDF has changed, and my duties have
moved to a more administrative and operative side of the daily
foundation running.
While I will continue to hack on our infrastructure in my spare time as
many others do, and also try to attend adming meetings and calls, the
growing demands and needs of TDF also let my duties grow, which sadly
won't leave me the time and the focus to look after our infrastructure
needs, on a level that our ever-growing server farms and community needs
would require.
Effective March 15th, the board has decided to contract another
part-time infrastructure administrator: From that date on, Alexander
Werner, whom many of you already know from his so far pro bono work,
will dedicate 20 hours per week on a paid basis to further improve our
infrastructure, and work on the next important steps, most notably
moving to fully virtualizing servers and services, and integrate
configuration management and deployment on a SaltStack basis.
I am glad Alex is willing to jump into this role, as he has been a
member of the infrastructure team from day one (in fact, it was him who
spent time with me on launch day to ensure we stay online!), and has
already invested a considerable amount of time on improving deployment
and configuration, plus has written some of the most crucial tools of
our infrastructure, like the mailing list filter. So, welcome on board,
I am really glad to have you with us!
In turn, this also means that for future infrastructure questions, the
best is to follow the little guide at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Category:Infrastructure to ensure
requests and wishes get dealt with. I am happy to look into issues when
I find time, but I cannot guarantee a timely response if requests are
sent to me directly, given my growing amount of other duties.
The work on virtualization and deployment is very important for the
ongoing success of the community, to make our platform future-proof,
scaleable, agile and also more cost-efficient, so I consider these two
tasks highest priority. Given we have Alex only part-time with us, this
also means we will invest time to grow the volunteer contributions to
infra, and also enable people to work on certain tasks on their own,
e.g. with dedicated virtual machines.
I am looking forward to what we will see in the future, would like to
thank everyone for the wonderful cooperating during the past year, and
look forward to working with you also in my new role!
Happy hacking!
Florian
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