Fellow earthicans... as part of Google's Summer of Code we are working the "debexpo" project which is supposed to create a software basis to run "social network"-enhanced Debian package repositories. Think mentors.debian.net with more social interaction like commenting on other people's packages and perhaps moving part of the "RFS" communication on the debian-mentors mailing list to the website. mentors.debian.net will start using that software, too, then.
As soon as that part is done I would like to consider moving the service to an official Debian machine. I've been sponsoring hardware for mentors.debian.net for the last years. In my opinion the mentors server has become an established resource and is used a lot. So I wondered what has to be done to get it into debian.org hardware. I'd still be willing to maintain it of course. What would be needed: - Python (>= 2.4) - PostgreSQL - 10 GB disk space (currently the source repository is just 2 GB) - Crontab - Apache, nging, lighttpd... If everything turns out to work as we plan during our "debexpo" project we will run as much as possible inside the Python web framework (Pylons) so there is less to do on the shell and e.g. no proftpd involved (uploads are supposed to happen through 'dput' and its ability to use HTTP PUT). The application will work on mod_wsgi or mod_python on Apache or standalone with its built-in web server that can be proxied by mod_proxy to a local port. This does not need to happen before fall 2008. But then it would be nice if we could move it then. Who is in charge of the debian.org servers for this matter? Cheers Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.workaround.org JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg key: 79CC6586 fingerprint: 9B26F48E6F2B0A3F7E33E6B7095E77C579CC6586 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]