I'm a little lost in the minutes from this meeting. Is the decision that we use a VM that will be entirely administered by TOS? And hence avoid using any of OSL's centralized services?
If so, I'm not sure what we gain by managing all the services independently. -- Nicholas On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Jeff Sheltren <j...@osuosl.org> wrote: > Ian, thanks for the note. We setup a VM for Karsten to test out phpbb > a while back -- Karsten, should we consider that a lost cause and > reclaim that VM for general TOS use? > > A large part of the benefit of hosting something at the OSL is that we > have students and full-time staff dedicated to providing hosting and > system administration services. We automate most everything in > cfengine (soon puppet), and have experience scaling for very large > communities / high traffic sites. Should you choose to have full root > access on a machine and maintain it yourself, then you would be > missing out on a lot of these benefits. That said, if the TOS > community agrees that having their own sys admin team is the way to > go, we're glad to provide full root access on a VM -- it just means > we'll be less able to help should something go wrong with the > server/services. > > We also have a lot of centralized services like I mentioned on IRC -- > mailman, DNS, mysql, postresql, etc. and we would urge you to use > those as much as possible instead of running those services locally on > your VM. > > -Jeff > > 2011/2/7 Ian Weller <i...@ianweller.org>: > > Jeff, > > > > After today's ad-hoc discussion in #teachingopensource [1], Chris and I > > agreed that we ought to request a VM with root access for the > > TeachingOpenSource.org community. > > > > [1]: > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2011-02-07/teachingopensource.2011-02-07-21.37.log.html > > > > For everyone else on tos@: The goal is to have a team of TOS volunteers > > complete the following tasks by SIGSCE (second week of March): > > > > - new server set up with shared root access (AFAIK, Chris and I are > > volunteering; anyone else?) > > - MediaWiki instance set up on new server > > - extension installed to deal with spam problem > > - mailman moved over > > - a place to point people who want to help with infra (likely wiki) > > - a place for people to discuss what future services TOS should provide > > > > If you're interested in helping, add your name under Members here: > > http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Infrastructure_Team > > (the rest of that page is going to change rapidly as the evening > > progresses.) > > > > -- > > Ian Weller <i...@ianweller.org> > > Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tos mailing list > > tos@teachingopensource.org > > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >
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