[Box-Admins] Server needed for squeaksource hosting [caracciolo@iam.unibe.ch: Re: squeaksource.com transition to new server]

[David T. Lewis]

Who is the gatekeeper for server and account access? I know Ken has been
trying to hand off responsibility for this for quite some time, but I don't
recall who picked up the task.

I know we are in the middle of vacation season, but if someone can give
me a pointer I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
Dave


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 08:38:01AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> FYI, I am currently consuming a large amount of disk space on build.squeak.org
> for testing squeaksource migration. Let me know if this causes any problems.
> 
> Over the weekend I was able to bring up a full copy of squeaksource.com
> on my home PC. I worked around a couple of problems and got the in-image
> repository updated (so it won't spam the mailing lists after a SqueakSource
> restart), and I disabled mail delivery. I then copied the entire thing to
> my user directory on build.squeak.org.
> 
> This is just a temporary test and is not yet properly installed, but
> anyone interested can connect to it on http://build.squeak.org:8888.
> VNC is running on display 1, please ask if you would like the password
> (this list is archived so I won't mention the password here).
> 
> I do need some help to identify the right location for the real installation.
> Will this be on box4? If so, can I please get an account?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 01:12:22PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:50:08PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > > We now have access to a complete snapshot copy of SqueakSource. I am
> > > in the process of retrieving the files to my personal PC (not yet complete,
> > > I'm still trying to get a clean copy of one large 15GB file), and I will
> > > now need a place to put them on squeak.org.
> > > 
> > > I need some help to proceed. We need a server with 20 to 30 GB of file space
> > > available for the SqueakSource files, and with memory and CPU resources
> > > similar to whatever we are currently doing for source.squeak.org.
> > > 
> > > Can someone help, either by giving me access to an existing server, or by
> > > letting me know what is available? I will need a user account (lewis) similar
> > > to my current account on build.squeak.org, and I will need sudo privilege
> > > to set up an account for squeaksource and to set up the runtime environment.
> > > 
> > > In addition it would be helpful if I could get enough access to the
> > > source.squeak.org server so that I can look at it and figure out how that
> > > server is configured. Even better would be if the source.squeak.org
> > > server has enough capacity (mainly disk space) to also host squeaksource,
> > > in which case we can put both of them on the same server.
> > > 
> > > I would like to do this as soon as possible (tomorrow perhaps?) so any
> > > assistance and pointers will be gratefully received.
> > >
> > 
> > I now (finally) have a complete copy of the SqueakSource files sitting on
> > my hard drive here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here is what we have:
> > 
> >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users 16341844652 2013-08-24 04:21 Squeaksource-projects-22-8-2013.tar
> >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users     5558656 2013-08-23 08:20 Squeak-3.9-8-SqueakSource.app.tar
> >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users   167474616 2013-08-23 08:19 squeaksource.image
> >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users    15721301 2013-08-23 08:18 squeaksource.changes
> >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users         718 2013-08-23 08:18 squeaksource.com
> >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users        1686 2013-08-23 08:17 Workspace.text
> >   -rw-r--r-- 1 lewis users    14542313 2013-08-23 08:17 SqueakV3.sources
> > 
> > After unpacking the files (these are compressed tars), the total disk usage
> > is a bit over 16 GB:
> > 
> >   lewis at linux-jh8m:~/squeak/SS/TransitionToSqueakDotOrg/WORK> du -s *
> >   21564   Squeak-3.9-8-SqueakSource.app
> >   15356   squeaksource.changes
> >   4       squeaksource.com
> >   163552  squeaksource.image
> >   14204   SqueakV3.sources
> >   16401280        ss
> >   4       Workspace.text
> > 
> > So a server with 20GB working space is sufficient, and 30GB would provide
> > comfortable headroom.
> > 
> > Dave
> >