[Box-Admins] Box-Admins Team Report for August, 2008

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Wed Sep 3 16:51:08 UTC 2008


The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared
server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on
that server.

For August, 2008:

Late in the month the community server went down for a period of less
than a day.  This is the second time the server has stopped working in
the last 45 days.  I was unable to find any evidence in the logs as to
what may have happened this time.  It seems in July a fan failed.  It
has been approximately 3 years since we provisioned this server with
Hetzner.  For a while now we have been sitting at around 90% diskspace
usage.  While the need is not immediate, I believe we should plan on
provisioning a replacement server sometime in the next year.

In other news the Leadership team finalized a decision on Janko Mivsek's
proposal for a new www.squeak.org website based on Swazoo/AIDA/Scribo.
I'll let him provide more detail but the new site should be available
soon.

Over the last couple of months I and Matthew Fulmer have been doing some
cleanup on the Squeakmap (http://map.squeak.org/) map (or database).  We
identified on the order of 80-100 packages whose latest release was not
currently downloadable.  We've been working on those along with the
package maintainers to improve the utility of Squeakmap.  Work on that
front continue and I hope to have a more detailed report on this work
soon.

I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund
the box and remind them that the bills continue to appear and that
you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to

http://www.squeak.org/Foundation/SupportSqueak/

and purchasing a Squeak badge. Note that a donation here may be used for
other Squeak Foundation services including but not limited to
development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak.

The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are
not limited to):

http://www.squeak.org/

SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/

http://ftp.squeak.org/

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/

http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/

http://source.squeakfoundation.org/

http://map.squeak.org/

https://svn.squeak.org/

http://update.squeakfoundation.org/

http://wiki.squeak.org/

http://bugs.squeak.org/

and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names.

Ken
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