Re: Evolution Express - hosting account sniffing ...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:58 -0500, Paul Cutler wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 08:51 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:35 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > > 	Can we host a set of nearly static, seldom changed XML files for these
> > > guys on http://api.gnome.org/ somewhere ?
> > > 
> > > 	Clearly - it would really help to get that setup quickly :-) Paul - any
> > > ideas ?
> > > 
> > > 	The files we need are currently also installed for off-line use and are
> > > in evolution HEAD git inside:
> > > 
> > > 	evolution/capplet/settings/mail-autoconfig/
> > > 
> > > 	Under 1Mb of disk, of which we would serve sub 1k per user setting up a
> > > new account.
> > 
> > Another option might be http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/.
> > 
> > I don't know about access times -- seems fairly snappy to me -- but the
> > content there is already under source control and since I feed and care
> > for the Evolution website anyway these days, I could upload the XML
> > files today if you wanted.
> > 
> > Matt 
> > 
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> 
> Ok, just to recap our discussion in IRC:
> 
> 1 - We would like GNOME to host user config files for Evolution so users
> can have auto-setup of their email clients by Evolution automatically
> downoading a small XML file with the ISP's server settings
> 
> 2 - This is a 1kb file that may be downloaded up to every 3 seconds for
> a sustained bandwidth of 355bytes / sec - 2.8kBit
> 
> 3 - There is a valid concern we don't want our main webserver (Window)
> to have to serve this.  api.gnome.org was originally suggested, but that
> lives on Window already
>
> With that said, our best options would probably be a VM on Combobox (or
> move api.gnome.org to Combobox) or possibly Signal as OSUOSL has a lot
> of bandwidth (though we have some LDAP issues we'd have to fix).  One
> advantage of using Combobox is we want to run Snowy on it and it could
> become our "GNOME Web Services" VM hosted box.

Can you explain the concern here? Every server we host, VM or not has
quite significant administrative overhead, and having a completely
separate server to serve a bit of static content doesn't seem warranted.

- Owen