Re: Minutes of the GNOME Foundation Board meeting 28 November 2000

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:01:23AM +0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2000 20:29:58 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >  - gnome.org hosting
> >   3 machines at a colocation near RH.
> >    there have been occasionnal downtimes 2-3 weeks in average
> >    some software seems to eat all resources and get it down
> >    there is a couple of technical solutions:
> >     + process limits
> >     + getting hardware raid + LFS
> >     + getting a serial <-> VGA
> >    Problem is people commiting when not appropriate
> 
> I'm unclear as to what this last line means.

  One of the most common problems which led to the discussion whether
we should add ACL (Access Control Lists) to the CVs base is that there
have been case of people who were granted access to do a specific
action on the code base and who extended that priviledge and made
unappropriate changes to the code.

> As well, should there be a "technical" committee overseeing the hardware
> and such?

  The current view point was that we should try to find and fix the
few problems we had with the current state of the servers. This doesn't
prevent looking for different hosting or hardware solutions but this
was considered less urgent (if needed at all.)

  My personal opinion on this last point is that the bandwidth and hardware
capacity of the servers is just fine for their current use, there is just a 
need to fixe a couple of problems (and Owen promised to look at what could
be done to fix the couple of weak points.).

Daniel

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