Before I answer anything: Chris, I noticed you've only just signed up for the wiki, so I've granted you editor access now. If you were wondering why there was no edit button before, now you know!

On 02/17/2013 07:13 AM, Chris Cargile wrote:

on the matter of having a test-environment image for everyone, I found we could host the image almost for free on amazon, if needed, and they have utilities to ease the process of importing/exporting from/to amazon- and VMware- formats, if for some reason the group wanted amazon web service portability as a feature at some point, or wanted to collaborate towards developing an image. I mention this bc as I shared I had a live instance of MM2 up on an AWS machine, I also thought remote-desktop'ing into an AWS image which could then be exported might be easy enough and eliminates uploading large .ISO/.VM-DK files somewhere.

I would be interested to know more about the format we'd use for creating and sharing an image and look forward to working with the team

I really like the idea of having a Mailman 3 AWS machine in general. It'd be really awesome to be able to have people just spin up a working Mailman 3 instance to help answer their own questions about the state of the UI and whatnot. So +1 to that if you're interested in setting it up and just linking it from the wiki.

I'm a bit hesitant to assume that it'll be useful for the students since cloud computing costs money, and if you're a prospective GSoC student it might not seem worthwhile to outlay money to spin up an instance until you've actually been accepted and know you'll be paid. So ideally, we'd also want to have a downloadable VM that anyone could use. I personally can provide temporary hosting if I ask my sysadmin nicely so we know to keep an eye on traffic, and we might be able to find something more permanent with python.org or others, so for now, if you're interested in setting up a giant file, assume that we'll have somewhere to put it and go ahead.

Terri