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

[Bert Freudenberg]

It's still Ken, no-one has stepped up to take over yet. Thankfully, Ken still keeps it up ...

Chris M. just got access to box3 and box4, I assume with sudo rights, so he should be able to set you up.

- Bert -


On 2013-08-28, at 17:56, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>