Re: www.gtkmm.org hosting

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 10:23 +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 14:37 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > > seems like we might not have the sysadmin resources to really support
> > > extra web sites. 
> 
> GNOME projects are not extra web sites, really. We should find a balance
> between project websites requirements and sysadmin realistic resources.
> 
> Murray, it would be great if you could  start a list of requirements
> based on your own needs for gtkmm.org. Then we can improve these
> requirements checking with other GNOME projects, and after that we
> "negotiate" with the sysadmins what can we really offer. 
> 
> With this we get a official and documented offer to GNOME projects.
> Those happy with it can come and be served. Those with special needs can
> try to increase the requirements accepted or go elsewhere.
> 

I have been considering starting (another) internal thread on how we can
widen the GNOME sysadmin team some more. We made a request for sysadmin
volunteers a couple of years ago, and got a good response, but
unfortunately we turned most of them down and only took up a few of them
on their offers, as we only needed a few more pairs of hands at the
time.

Now we have a small influx of new hardware and hosting offers, we are
going to need to make sure they don't sit idle waiting for us to get
round to them. I think we are going to need to consider taking on a few
more worthy volunteers into the team to help prepare and execute any
plans we will be drawing up and help maintain a certain level of service
etc.

Anyway, what with the subversion migration and other (non-GNOME) work,
I'll be a bit busy for the next few weeks, but hopefully by the time
that settles, Murray (and anyone else with an opinion) should have
started setting some of the expectations and we can begin to discuss how
to meet them ;) I look forward to seeing them.

--
Ross