Re: Systems

[Kevin Teague <kevin bud ca>]

> What would be the advantages / disadvantages of sharing users via  
> LDAP?

plone.org uses LDAP. The advantage is that you can use the same  
account across multiple web properties. For example on plone.org you  
can use the same account to update content, use the Trac issue  
tracker, or make commits to SVN. It's really nice to be able to  
change your password in just one place :)

Since gnome.org has a lot of microsites, being able to participate  
via comments, etc. across all these sites would is quite nice.  
Another alternative to LDAP might be OpenID:

http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/173/

The primary disadvantage to LDAP is that it can take a decent amount  
of sysadmin time and knowledge to properly set-up and maintain LDAP.

Another advantage/disadvantage is that it can centralize  
authentication/authorization privileges into one place. This can be  
advantage to more easily determine who can do what, but a  
disadvantage if you've got too few people with too much control or  
the opposite of too many people with too much control who are  
inadvertently handing out privileges that did not expect.


> > * Where can I find information about actual access to wgo ?  
> > ( access per
> > second )
>
> http://www.gnome.org/stats/
>
> See the peaks on March 16th and September 7th corresponding to the  
> GNOME
> releases. The revamped wgo will be released precisely hours before the
> next expected peak, we better plan the resources needed carefully.

Wow, gnome.org gets some intense traffic. For comparison, the  
plone.org stats are here:

http://stats.plone.org/

plone.org does about 1/10th the traffic of a peak wgo month, although  
it is serving up a lot of content from one system (over 5,000 content  
items). plone.org is running of one box, it currently runs  
subversion, Trac and Plone:

http://plone.org/development/teams/infrastructure/docs/servers


- Kevin Teague