Seems like there are two different but related components to this:
- actual "ownership" of the infrastructure (only relevant in some cases)
- administration/maintenance of infrastructure
For example, mifos.org needs someone to host the website (or pay for Amazon),
pay for the domain registration, etc., and also (separately or same person/org)
to maintain the Drupal site, etc.
the mailing lists etc are on other people's infrastructure, so just need
maintenance.
one suggestion: as we transition some of the tools & content to others for
management & administration, it seems like there's a cleanup opportunity too -
in the wiki etc there's a lot of outdated content and it might be nice to think
about how to make a fresh start for much of the content/documentation, maybe
simplifying it all since resources to manage will presumably be fewer six
months from now.
On Jun 24, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Ed Cable wrote:
> Hello community,
>
> As Mifos sets on off its next phase, independent and separate from Grameen
> Foundation, the community will now have the opportunity to take on greater
> responsibilities to maintain the product and project moving forward. There a
> number of key tasks around maintaining infrastructure that we are seeking
> volunteers to help lead.
>
> The remaining members of the Mifos team are slowly transitioning away from
> their roles as paid staff so we want to begin this discussion to prepare the
> community to take on new responsibilities.
>
> Over the coming weeks, we'll start other discussion on maintenance of other
> tools like translation and documentation. Ultimately, we would like to group
> interested community members into teams of volunteers to oversee core areas
> of the project and infrastructure.
>
> Please respond to this thread if you'd like assist with some of the below
> activities:
>
> Web Infrastructure:
>
> Fortunately most of our tools are hosted solutions that we don't directly
> have to administer and maintain. A number of sites and resources we must
> directly administer and will need additional help. These include maintaining
> Mifos.org which is built on Drupal and hosted on Amazon, and our build server
> which contains our test servers and continous integration servers. Remote
> systems administration is needed for the servers and application of security
> patches and bug fixes to the Drupal site as needed. Jim Stamper and Keith
> Pierce have already express interested in helping maintain this
> infrastructure.
>
> Collaboration Infrastructure:
>
> Day to day maintenance of our collaboration and communication tools including
> our mailing lists, wiki, issue tracker, IRC channel, etc. All of these tools
> are hosted externally so the main assistance is needed with administration of
> accounts and permissions and moderation of content. Please reply to this
> thread if you would like to assist with moderation of the mailing list
> powered by sourceforge.net, accessing mailing list archives on GoogleGroups
> and GMANE, maintaining IRC chat log archives, and administering permissions
> for MifosForge which hosts our JIRA and Confluence tools.
>
> As it always has been, the lifeblood of our community is the content we share
> and the conversations we have on the mailing lists. We ask that as members
> of the community you be even more proactive to ask questions, share content,
> and support each other through these tools.
>
> Source Code Repository:
>
> The Mifos source code is hosted in a git repository on sourceforge.net.
> We're looking to distribute maintenance of the repository around multiple key
> community members. Please reply if you're interested in getting commit
> privileges to help maintain the source code.
>
> Stay tuned for more opportunities to help transition the infrastructure of
> the project and we welcome the help of anyone from the community.
>
> Best,
>
> Ed Cable
> Mifos Community Manager
>
>
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