[Tracker-discuss] Getting Started
Brett Cannon
brett at python.org
Sun Oct 29 20:16:32 CET 2006
On 10/29/06, Erik Forsberg <forsberg at efod.se> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I don't know if all of the "initial admins" have indicated their
> willingness yet, but you are at least all subscribed to this list - so
> let's get started working!
Yes, everyone has accepted. I will probably be sending out the announcement
email today.
A bunch of infrastructure- and development-related questions popped up
> in my head, so I wrote them down below. Hopefully, there's someone
> here that can answer them :-) (I did notice at least one
> upfrontsystems.co.za person in the list roster..).
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> Infrastructure
> ==============
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> Machine
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> * What kind of machine are Upfront Systems's going to host for the
> python-dev tracker? How much CPU, memory and disk is available?
>
> * Will the python-dev tracker be the only software running on this
> machine? (I assume so, since Brett wrote something about root
> access)
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> * Which Linux distribution will it run, and who will be responsible
> to keep the system up to date with security patches etc? We, or
> Upfront? (I prefer the latter.)
>
> * Does the machine have RAID for its disks? Is there support for
> monitoring the disks, and who will be responsible for that?
>
> Backup
> - ------
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> * What backup facilities are included in the hosting offer?
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> * Are there any alternative ways to make backups, such as usage of
> rsync, rdiff-backup or similar to some python-community-controlled
> machine?
We can work this out with the pydotorg folks. But yes, we can get the
access needed through SSH 2 keys.
Access
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> * Which protocols will be available for access to the machine? I
> prefer using only SSH (with sftp for file transfers).
>
> On the security side, perhaps we should lock down the root account and
> use sudo to gain root credentials from individual accounts?
pydotorg only allows SSSH 2 key access for accounts and actually removes
password access. It's worked out rather well I think. Don't know how they
handle root, though.
Monitoring
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> * Is there a nagios (or similar) installation somewhere that we can
> use to monitor the tracker, its backup etc?
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> Development
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> * Is there a subversion repository we could use for the development of
> the tracker? So far we've used a module in the CVS repository for
> roundup (on Sourceforge), but as I prefer subversion and don't enjoy
> the "stability" of sourceforge, I'd enjoy a stable subversion
> repository for this development.
We can make a project in the Python svn repository for this without issue.
* Where should we keep our tracker bugs? I'm happy to keep the
> http://efod.se/ptt/ (python-tracker-tracker) online if you like.
I guess you don't want to keep this on the server itself since keeping the
tracker you are reporting bugs for on the tracker that has the bugs is kind
of bad. =)
-Brett
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