Hi As the subject says we have new alioth repositories for the next DebConf. This year we decided to go without versioned names, so we do not need to restart them every year, so they are now named
debconf-data - for the general, public accessible, and debconf-team - for the private, public not-accessible repository. Of course most data should go (again) into -data, but sometimes you just need -team. :) As these are now planned to stay around forever (or until world breaks) I introduced README.layouts in both repositorys toplevel directory, giving a little hint where you should place your stuff. Feel free to extend them wherever needed. Basic layout is a toplevel dcX/ for every debconf, which contains subdirectories for every part we want to have, like website/, mail/, etc. See the Readme for more. I have not yet moved the website contents over to the new repository, I plan to do that either tomorrow evening or on Tuesday evening. Until then feel free to point out any mistakes in the proposed layout. Thanks. While we are at it - we also have new svn commit lists now. They are now on http://lists.debconf.org and named debconf-data-commit and debconf-team-commit. All people that were subscribed to the debconf6 commit lists are subscribed there already, everyone else is free to subscribe to the debconf-data commit list, the -team list needs an OK From a listadmin (currently only me) of course. (Which is a simple check if you are in the -team project or not :) ). And while we were setting up the new repositories I copied a few users over. Not everyone, as some may be local team only, or may not be interested to have access anymore. If I missed to add you to either debconf-data or debconf-team and you had access to the old ones: Bug me on IRC (Nick ganneff) or sent me a little mail. Or ask stcokholm or gunnar, as they are both admins also. :) Other news: We got another, fast, machine for the debconf.org domain, named quimby (see below). Currently it doesnt do much, but it will host the DebConf wiki that some people requested, and will also get the test instances of possible new software. While talking about new Software - yesterday i took a look at Pentabarf (see http://wiki.debian.org/DebConfNextSoftware) and must say - it looks nice. Hairy setup, but that doesnt count, as users do not see that. Will make it freely available for everyone to test in the coming week, lets see if it survives that test. Just for the record and those who love information and statistics, that now makes up 5 machines in the debconf.org domain, one in England, one in the USA, three in Germany. There is cmburns.debconf.org which hosts our complete website, is our main mail exchanger, is the master for our userdatabase and the dns and lives in England. It also hosts our munin instance, so if you love colored graphs - look at munin.debconf.org. His full name is "Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns", after the big controlling bad-guy in the Simpsons series. smithers.debconf.org which is our mailing list slave, acts as a backup mail exchanger and also hosts the nagios server for our domain. His full name is "Waylon (J.) Smithers", as he was the second own machine we got, so he is the slave of cmburns. Smithers is located in Germany. apu.debconf.org was our third host in the debconf domain, formerly called delenn, but renamed as it moved over. The only thing apu hosts is the master archive for http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/ so we are always sure to have a backup of that data. His name is a bit longer than usual, its "Apu Nahasapeemapetilon", the Kwik-E-Mart clerk. Apu is also a german machine. wiggum.debconf.org was formerly called bartok.debian.org, until that host got a new and bigger machine. Now it is our gallery server, will be used for backups (it has lots of diskspace) and for whatever else we may imagine. The name is "Chief "Clancy" Wiggum" and the machine is also located in Germany. quimby.debconf.org is the machine i mentioned above, so of course it is located in the USA. Right now it has no final usage, but a lot of plans. The major one is that it should get the main webserver for our domain, only having a "stable" site. Every development should be done on cmburns, until we know it wont break anything, then move that over to quimby. More details to that later, after I know how I want it to work and after I coordinated that with the webteam - after all they need to work with it. So, back to the machine I think i should mention that it already was the video streaming master during DebConf6, so it already helped us a lot. The name is "Diamond Joe Quimby", the Town Mayor, a good choice for a machine that should get the webmaster later. Anything I missed? Hrm, damn, this mail is much longer than i want it to be. -- bye Joerg Some NM: The shell script is called debcheck.py.
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