Dear DSA, as decided during DC16 and re-iterated during DC17 we would like to complete the move to DSA hardware from DebConf specific VMs / infrastructure.
The general plan (from our side) is as follows: There is a lot of historic data spread over many, many old hostnames and systems in the debconf.org domain (debconf.net wasn't really used in any recent time). So we have to migrate what we need and accept a cut-off at some point to make the task manageable and the remaining infrastructure something that can be DSA run with good confidence. Read: We deliberately would like to use this opportunity to clean up a bit after 20 years of adding things on top of each other. The following tasks are roughly in order of priority and in a sequence that can be done one after the other. They do not depend on each other though. TASK 1: We need one new VM on DSA hardware (2GB RAM, 10GB disk) to run both debconf18.debconf.org and wafertest.debconf.org (CNAMES, Apache SNI, Let's encrypt SSL cert), and access to a PostgreSQL instance. We want to consolidate prod and test instances on one VM to make testing things easier for us. This system will be maintained by the DebConf web team (tumbleweed, olasd, DLange, ...). TASK2: We would like the mailing lists: Debconf-announce Debconf Announcements Debconf-discuss Discussions about Debconf Debconf-sponsors-team DebConf Sponsors Team List Debconf-team Organizer Team Debconf-video Video Team to be moved from lists.debconf.org to lists.debian.org (including their mailing list archives). The other lists are obsolete andcan be removed without replacement. Once that is done, please decommission the lists.debconf.org mailing lists. This has been approved by listmasters (formorer 17.09.2017). TASK 3: The DC17 webpage is currently still being used by pollo to finish the accounting. That needs the running wafer instance for another month or so. We will make the DC17 webpage static once accounting and the content team (linking slides) are finished and submit a tarball for hosting at static.debian.org with the debconf17.debconf.org CNAME. Any time after that we would like you to power down and remove the "itchy" and "scratchy" VMs that ran prod and test instances for the "wafer" application (Django + postgres) that runs dc*.debconf.org these days. The webpage will be converted to a static .tar.gz by the DebConf web team (tumbleweed in this case) and sent to you as soon as the accounting catch-up post DC17 is finished. TASK4(already has an RT ticket, #6836): We run Kanboard (https://kanboard.net/) <https://kanboard.net/%29>on kanban.debian.net and would like to continue to use it for DC18 and other DebConf related task tracking. It currently runs on a private VM of a DC17 member. Could you please provide a VM (1GB RAM, 10 GB disk) with php and mariadb so we can run this on DSA supported hardware? If you can onlysupport postgres, this will be fine as well (the kanboard application supports it) but make data migration a bit harder for us. As other teams would probably benefit from having the tool available please consider making it kanban (or kanboard).debian.org and providing it to Debian as a whole. (pollo is in charge of that request) This system will be maintained by pollo. TASK5: Please move the wiki.debconf.org (kent.debconf.org) instance to DSA hardware. We will continue the discussion of merging debconf-wiki and debian-wiki but due to the different wiki engines (mediawiki vs moinmoin) this is non-trivial and needs further discussion both from technical (user merging, data conversion, namespacing, ...) and from procedural (wiki-admin) sides.So please move the instance as is for now. This system will be maintained by the DebConf wiki team (Kaare and others). TASK6: We need a DSA hardware VM / machine for the master node for video.debian.net / meetings-archive.debian.net (currently apu.debconf.org). This needs a lot of disk space (currently 1.2TiB used), for the git-annex repo. ftp.acc.umu.se mirrors this for the public. vittoria.debian.org is the step before this (the encoding & review pipeline). They could be colocated, but that would still require a new large storage volume. This system will be maintained by the DebConf video team (tumbleweed, olasd, pollo, ...). TASK 7: Please move the contents of media.debconf.org to static.debian.org and point the CNAME there (the used subdirectories should help make this painless). TASK 8: We are not sure what to do with annex.debconf.org (which is a git-annex target used to publish slides etc.). Medium term it should probably be moved to the alioth successor(salsa). We would like to get rid of debconf specific infrastructure as much as possible but this keeps the presentation slides of the last debconfs so this is worth preserving and keeping URLs working. Does DSA have advice for us how to achieve keeping the data while not having yet another system to maintain? TASK9: We would like to removegallery.debconf.orgas it is rather unmaintained.Canwe do an export to staticorgit-annex(see Task 8) ormedia.dc.o? Breaking URLs is not much of an issue here but the contents should be preserved. git-annex is where these images end up mostly for recent DebConfs. If you are o.k. with the overall approach and the task list we can create individual RT tickets where they don't exist yet for you to track the progress. Looking forward to your feedback! Daniel _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
