[Box-Admins] squeaksource.com future

[David T. Lewis]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> On 2013-08-22, at 02:59, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:53:11AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:38:55PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> The Squeak Oversight Board has been in contact with Oscar Nierstrasz's group at the Uni of Berne. At the moment Fabrizio Perin is maintaining the server. Our last message exchange was in December 2012. I meant to follow up on that, but I should admit that I don't have the time to actually do it.
> >>> 
> >>> Our short-term plan was to simply move the whole thing over to one of our own servers, switch the DNS record, and take it from there. 
> >>> 
> >>> Would someone have time to make that happen?
> >>> 
> >>> - Bert -
> >> 
> >> I don't have much free time right now, so I would be happy if someone else
> >> was to volunteer. On the other hand, moving SqueakSource to one of our boxes
> >> might turn out to be less work than moving all of my projects from SqueakSource
> >> over to something else, so I might be able to convince myself to take it on ;-)
> >> 
> >> Any other volunteers?
> >> 
> >> Dave
> > 
> > Bert,
> > 
> > I'm not sure that I really have time to take on another project, but keeping
> > a working SqueakSource on line seems like it would be worth a little effort
> > so I'm going to volunteer.
> 
> Awesome!
> 
> > Do you have a copy of the last email exchange with Fabrizio Perin? If so I
> > will make contact with him and see if it may still be feasible to move SqueakSource
> > over to one of our squeak.org boxes.
> > 
> > If this works out, I will be asking the box-admins for help to find space on
> > our servers to host the migrated squeaksource.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> 
> 
> I will forward the messages separately - there's nothing "secret" in these messages, but because they were sent privately, I won't post them to the public list.
> 

Bert:

I sent a message to Fabrizio Perin and Andrei Vasile Chis to follow up
on your earlier discussion with Fabrizio. Hopefully this will get the
process under way.

I don't (yet) know anything about running a SqueakSource, but my assumption
is that if I can get a full copy of the files, along with a copy of the
image/changes files, then I can figure out the rest from there.

Box admins:

I don't know the resource requirements for SqueakSource, but I assume that
it will require a good deal of file space, and that the CPU/memory requirements
will be similar to that of our current source.squeak.org. I will determine
the requirements as soon as I can, meanwhile if there is an existing box
that I could plan to use, that would be great.

Thanks,
Dave