*.openmoko.org infrastructure

[Bob Ham]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:20:36PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 00:08 +0100, Bob Ham wrote:

> > > I've spoken through IRC to some of the guys at the Open Source Lab at
> > > Oregon State University¹.  This group hosts, for example, the Meego
> > > project, as well as helping host parts of the Apache, Debian, CentOS and
> > > Gentoo infrastructures, to name a few.
> > > 
> > Harald, Maximilian and Joachim, as the present administrators what do
> > you think about this idea?
> 
> I think it's an excellent idea.   This seems like a good idea, given
> that there are people who are already taking care of hosting other
> projects and thus already do quite a bit of sysadmin.
> 
> So just to be clear on this:  From my point of view the problem is not
> to pay for some hosting/traffic every month.  If anything else fails,
> I'd even pay that out of my own pocket.  The main issue is to have
> somebody who will actually take care of updating the debian packages,
> run backups, make sure things run smoothly and do a dist-upgrade every
> couple of years.

Indeed, that is the main issue.  The way I see it, freeing the community
from the burden of administering infrastructure can only be a good
thing.

> But in the end, it is Sean that you have to convince, not me ;)

Sean, what do you think?

-- 
Bob Ham <rah at settrans.net>

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }
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