Calling all Project Steering Committees, SAC is looking at the future of OSGeo hosted services. Please chime in with your wants and needs for the next 3-5 years. We want to maximize services while being efficient about effort (pooling sys admin time amongst projects).
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2014 More details below. Thanks, Alex OSGeo Sys Admin Committee Chair -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [SAC] Upgrade Planning 2014 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:25:41 -0700 From: Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> Reply-To: t...@wildintellect.com, System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo <s...@lists.osgeo.org> To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo <s...@lists.osgeo.org> In light of our recent hardware woes, the ending of osgeo1, and the age of current machines (3-4yrs) I think it's time to start planning what to do next. We do have budget, and the board is interested in ideas and additional funding is not out of the question. >From my perspective, I think we need: 1. To survey PSC of all projects to assess what services we should offer. Do we need buildbots, sphinx builds, mail service, issue tracking, various CMS/wiki, mirrors, bandwidth for downloads? Now that everyone is love with Github (any word on what the next hot host will be), are there things we should retire? 2. Look at other hosting options besides physical machines in one place. Renting space like QGIS or OSM, racking machines elsewhere, getting OSGeo-ICA labs to mirror. If we do mirror look at GeoCDN and MirrorBrain for geo-ip redirection balancing. 3. Look at new hardware that better meets the needs. RAID is nice but not always the right answer to needs as we discovered recently. We also didn't buy specific to Ganeti/Cloud style setups where hotcopy failover works best with multiple identical machines, and lots of smaller disks with single disks per VM keeps i/o from competing (RAID is handled in mirror mode via DRBD over the network between nodes). Anyone want to tackle making a short survey for Projects to describe their needs and wishes? All ideas welcome, we'll pool it all into proposal and a wiki page before deciding on anything. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Sac mailing list s...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/sac _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss