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):
SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/
http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/
http://source.squeakfoundation.org/
http://update.squeakfoundation.org/
and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names.
Ken
box-admins@lists.squeakfoundation.org