[Box-Admins] Re: [Board] Re: Moving box3 off Gandi hosting

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Aug 29 17:43:38 UTC 2016


On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 07:04:48PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 29.08.2016, at 18:52, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:25:51PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Tony Sebro <tony at sfconservancy.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On 08/23/2016 11:15 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> >>>> Squeakers,
> >>>> 
> >>>> It seems likely that Gandi won't renew our donated services, and even
> >>>> more, they are shutting down the coloc facility where box3.squeak.org
> >>>> lives as of 2016-12-01.
> >>>> 
> >>>> As such, I really suggest we move box3 and box4 off of Gandi's hosting
> >>>> services onto the Rackspace services that we can get donated for you.
> >>> As a reminder, we've already set up a Rackspace account for Squeak based
> >>> on previous conversations.  Please let me know who needs access to
> >>> handle the migration, and I'll create the necessary subaccount(s).  If
> >>> you need to ping me via IRC, I'm available at keynote2k on freenode.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks!  Best, -Tony
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Did someone reply? Where do we stand?
> >> 
> > 
> > I have not seen a reply, but we certainly need to respond. It's probably
> > best to have one person acting as our point of contact just to avoid
> > confusion (Tim, is that you?).
> > 
> > We will need to rely on Levente for overall guidance and expertise,
> > but the board needs to take ownership of communicating the strategy and
> > direction (this should to a main topic for our next SOB meeting). We
> > also need to identify the scope of work to be done, and find suitable
> > volunteers to drive each of the services that needs to be migrated, and
> > to do the actual work of migrating them.
> > 
> > For starters, I will volunteer to do the migration of squeaksource.com
> > from box3.squeak.org to the new Rackspace servers.
> 
> FWIW, The last person that spoke technically with Bradley was me.
> If I can be of help?


Tobias,

Per Tim, I think that Chris is our "official" point of contact, but you
are also very familiar with the server infrastructure, so I think that
if you could respond to Bradley with CC to Chris and box-admins, that
would be very helpful. The important thing is to make sure that Bradley
knows that we got the message and that we are taking it seriously.

Thanks,
Dave



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