On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi William, > I have already volunteered; Thierry set me up accounts on trac and wiki > hosts, but I (still) lack sudo rights.
Dima -- excellent -- I've added you to the Google Compute Engine project. I'll send you another email offlist. > Perhaps for moving the thing it's not needed, I didn't check. > (Thierry replies to my emails very sparingly, like once a week?) > > Moving wiki as it is to a VM does not look like a good idea, as it's running > on a very old Ubuntu, > and it'd need testing to see if its setup can be moved to an up-to date > Ubuntu (or whatever). > Perhaps it's indeed better to move the wiki to github (there were > discussions about better/best wikis > here, I didn't pay much attention to them). > > I do have 2-step auth enabled for my google account. > > Cheers, > Dima > > On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 1:43:38 AM UTC, William wrote: >> >> Hi Sage Developers, >> >> Can somebody *PLEASE* volunteer to move trac.sagemath.org and >> wiki.sagemath.org to a VM on GCE and maintain it for a while? >> >> I've setup a complete Google compute engine project specifically for >> this and I'll pay for this indefinitely. The project has a machine on >> it with ssh keys that can ssh to the root account of trac.sagemath.org >> and wiki.sagemath.org. I can easily add anybody with a Google >> account to this project (though I only want to add people that at >> least enable 2-factor auth, since you can waste a lot of money if you >> get hacked). >> >> Why move to GCE from UW? (1) the machines at UW are not backed up at >> all! -- I assumed a certain student had them backed up, but nope; in >> fact, we can't even ssh into the VM host right now (obviously, I could >> get physical access). (2) With GCE it's trivially to snapshot the >> whole VM's hundreds of times for very, very cheap, and things are very >> easy to scale, and every person who I add to the project has full >> access to everything through a web browser. It's just vastly better. >> >> The other option is that we move *everything* to Github. I think >> that would be way too disruptive to do right now. >> >> -- William > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
