On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Stephan Deibel wrote:
> Jesse Noller wrote: > > Noah can expand on this as Infrastructure lead, but the short version is > > this - last year we got some beefy donations and hosting form OSU/OSL - > > this allows us to run our own VM infrastructure and isolate/spin up new > > servers at will (which is great). We've been slowly migrating the old > > services to the new systems. > > ... > > This also includes "non PSF" assets such as PyPy assets we are now hosting > > for free. As I said, this is both a combination of communication issues and > > volunteer load. The board is examining paid backup/leads where needed > > and/or leveraging OSU's services and administration. > > > > Great, thanks. I figured you were already on top of looking at what the > PSF can do, but it seemed worth bringing up. > > Would it make sense to develop an infrastructure policy with a set of > requirements for infrastructure? Then the PSF could pay someone (or > appoint someone) to review everything periodically to make sure there > are working audited backups, security patches, security scans, and > whatever else is required by the policy. I don't know if that's too > bureaucratic but I'd support it as a way to use PSF funds. > > - Stephan Already working on a policy/job description/whatever you might call it. Just got side swiped with the Flu. _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www