<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bernie Innocenti</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernie@sugarlabs.org">bernie@sugarlabs.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:33 AM<br>Subject: [IAEP] Infrastructure Team Report<br>To: SLOBs <<a href="mailto:slobs@lists.sugarlabs.org">slobs@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>Cc: IAEP <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>
<br><br>== Infrastructure Team Report for September 2011 ==<br>
<br>
=== Mission ===<br>
<br>
Maintain and develop the collaboration and web-presence infrastructure<br>
of Sugar Labs.<br>
<br>
<br>
=== Wiki Home ===<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team</a><br>
<br>
<br>
=== Past ===<br>
<br>
After an initial struggle to find stable hosting, for the last two years<br>
our machines have been humming along nicely thanks to the stable hosting<br>
environment donated to us by the Free Software Foundation and the MIT<br>
Media Lab and the hardware generously provided by Stefan Unterhauser.<br>
<br>
<br>
=== Present ===<br>
<br>
We have enough bandwidth, CPU power and storage to sustain the growth<br>
rate of the next 2 years. In case we loose one of our hosting locations,<br>
we could probably run our entire infrastructure on a single, faster<br>
machine. The board has already set aside money to acquire a new server,<br>
but at this time we don't have to spend this budget.<br>
<br>
We operate thanks to the efforts of our core systems administrators:<br>
Dogi and I maintain the hardware and the low-level hosting<br>
infrastructure, Aleksey Lim is in charge of most of the development<br>
tools. Luke Faraone manages RT, SSL certificates, mailing lists and<br>
various other things. Chris Leonard takes good care of our wiki and<br>
Pootle along with Rafael Ortiz. Sascha Silbe maintains Trac, Patchwork<br>
and he monitors various services for security.<br>
<br>
Raul, Sascha and myself are usually available to respond to support<br>
calls on IRC. In case of an emergency, don't hesitate to call me on my<br>
cell phone.<br>
<br>
<br>
=== Future ===<br>
<br>
For non-urgent requests, we ask everyone to go send mail to the contact<br>
addresses listed in the wiki. This helps us spread the support burden<br>
and reduce our dependency on any single individual. If we ever make you<br>
wait more than 48h, please ping us on IRC: we don't want to become a<br>
bottleneck for people who want to get things done in Sugar Labs.<br>
<br>
Over the past year, I had to reduce my time commitment on the<br>
infrastructure team and Sugar Labs in general. I don't expect the<br>
situation to improve for the next year. However, our infrastructure is<br>
now mature and doesn't require as much effort to maintain as it used to.<br>
To help keep our infrastructure streamlined, I'd like to raise the pole<br>
for adding new services: any new machine and web application must have<br>
one clear owner who accepts to be fully accountable for its maintenance.<br>
This could be any of our existing sysadmins, or a new volunteer. We<br>
absolutely want to avoid unsupported, bitrotting services because they<br>
confuse our users, make us look bad and can become a serious security<br>
threat. Whenever a service becomes unmaintained with nobody available to<br>
take its ownership, it will be phased out. Any existing users will be<br>
given sufficient advance warning to migrate their data elsewhere.<br>
<br>
<br>
=== Careers Opportunities ===<br>
<br>
There are a number of areas in which we could use some help. Our team<br>
wiki describes (sometimes even accurately) all the services we provide<br>
and the people who are currently maintaining them:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team/Resources" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team/Resources</a><br>
<br>
If you're looking for a highly demanding, high-responsibility,<br>
unrewarding and unpaid job, then you're a good fit for the Sugar Labs<br>
Infrastructure Team! Please, apply here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team/Getting_Involved" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team/Getting_Involved</a><br>
<br>
--<br>
Bernie Innocenti<br>
Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team<br>
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team</a><br>
<br>
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