Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2015 / 2016 election

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2015, 12:06:55 schrieb Rich Freeman:
>
> This is a bit off-topic for this thread, but the last I had heard we
> already had the hardware and it just needed somebody to set it up.
> That was a few months ago so that could be stale.
> 
> I am concerned that infra is fairly overworked, and the nature of it
> makes it harder to bring new people in to help.  It isn't like anybody
> can just pick up a server and start admining it the way they can work
> on a package.  Stuff like this is probably why github seems to be
> slowly taking over the world.

I discussed this with Robin a few days ago (since I was also approaching a 
local potential sponsor). What I heard from Robin and Jorge is,

* The machine originally intended for git was in the meantime used otherwise; 
it could not be used to host the main git setup because of local network 
configuration problems.

* We are right now mainly interested in options 1) and 3) from the "hosting 
wishlist" that infra wrote up some time ago.

This is again the original mail from infra (roughly a year old now):

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The Gentoo Infrastructure team (infra@gentoo.org) is currently searching for
hosting sponsors in both Europe and North America. We ask that sponsors
contribute to Gentoo in one of several ways:

1. A donation of at least two dedicated servers including space, power
and 10Mbits of bandwidth (burstable to 50Mbit). This is the most common
option that organizations prefer. Sponsors typically have existing
dedicated space for their business and host hardware for Gentoo in that
space.

2. Donation of at least 8U space, 10A usable, and 10Mbits of bandwidth
(burstable to 50Mbits). The Gentoo Foundation will arrange the server hardware
(but not power, bandwidth, or rackspace / a rack.)

3. A single dedicated server. Minimum specifications: 16GiB RAM, 70GB usable
storage (RAID1 required, Linux MD RAID is good, SSDs are nice to have but not
required).  2Mbit bandwidth commit, burst to 10Mbit.

4. Beefy virtual machines. Minimum specifications: 8GiB RAM, 20GB storage.
2Mbit bandwidth commit, burst to 10Mbit.

5. Something else. If you think you have something useful to offer the
Infrastructure team, please get in touch!

In the first three cases we prefer that the sponsor has remote hands for
the machines (for dead drives etc). KVM-over-IP, remote IPMI or other
self-service remote management is also strongly desired.

Sponsors will received in return: ads on ads.gentoo.org (the ad sidebar to the
main site), postings on the sponsors page, as well as news items posted to
www.gentoo.org.

Interested parties should contact infra@gentoo.org.

Generally, the Infrastructure team will install servers fresh from a rescue
environment, netboot environment or Gentoo LiveCD/DVD/USB media; as such
sponsors are not required to perform any software installation or maintenance.

Sponsors often ask to host official Gentoo mirrors. Note that the Gentoo
mirror network is not currently seeking new mirror sponsors at this
time - we have lots of mirrors!

The Gentoo infrastructure team has had significant operational problems with
virtual machines not mixing well with security-hardened kernels. We see this 
as
a significant preference for physical hardware rather than solutions like Xen
or VMWare, but we are willing to try out HVM/fully virtualized machines like
KVM as availability dictates.
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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/
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