[Cython] sage.math problems?

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 03/22/2012 09:03 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> William Stein, 22.03.2012 14:11:
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:04 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
>>> On 22 March 2012 12:33, William Stein wrote:
>>>> The usb device (for /levi) never appeared after I remotely rebooted sage.math.
>>>> Physical access is thus probably required.  I've emailed some people who are in
>>>> Seattle, and we'll see.  (I'm thousands of miles away now, and will
>>>> only get further away
>>>> -- to Europe -- until Apr 2, when I'll be back in Seattle.)
>>>
>>> I believe any decent IT professional will tell you that you should not
>>> be using USB drives on servers.
>>
>> Well I'm definitely currently not using USB drives on this server. :-(
>>
>> If possible, can the stuff that was being done on /levi (jenkins for
>> Cython) be moved to /scratch, which is a reasonably fast NFS
>> filesystem.
>
> The whole Jenkins installation was on /levi (maybe not our best idea
> ever...). I have backups of the complete configuration, but we'd still
> loose the installed plugins and the build history. We'd literally start
> from scratch and it would take some time to set it all up again. If it
> turns out to be a matter of replugging the USB drive (or something
> similarly simple), I would prefer copying the original installation over
> (including the build history), rather than rebuilding it.
>

I hope it doesn't come to this, but if it does, I think we should really 
look hard at ShiningPanda instead.

Honestly, my feeling is that if we can't rally up $240/month in funding 
among Cython users then we might as well give up. (And specifically, we 
could ask NumFOCUS first, and possibly share the queue with other open 
source projects on their lists, and possibly ask ShiningPanda for an OSS 
project rebate).

I'm not primarily concerned with uptime, but with the time spent in 
maintaining the systems. The more that can be moved into the cloud the 
better for open source projects, if it means less maintenance, which is 
usually the case; see our move to GitHub.

ShiningPanda also offers features like testing on Windows.

Dag