[lsb-discuss] LSB and FHS restoration plan

[Alexey Khoroshilov]

This is a good news! Thank you, Jeff.

I hope ispras.linuxfoundation.org MediaWiki is also in the list.
There are several updates to our tools hosted there in our queue.

--
Alexey


On 12/02/2011 02:27 AM, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> As some of you know, when the Linux Foundation suffered their security
> breach and was shut down, I was called in to assist with the recovery
> efforts.  We've been working very hard on this.  The big job has been to
> create a new infrastructure that will survive this kind of incident,
> should it happen again, and also to give us better service.  Following
> on to that, we've been bringing up workgroups and projects.  The LSB's
> turn has now come.
>
> Most new services will be brought up on a new virtual machine that will
> be 100% owned by the LSB workgroup.  This will give us a bit more
> flexibility and control over our own destiny; we won't need to ask for
> permission to change things, or coordinate with the sysadmin, or
> consider the impact on co-located LF services.  In a few cases, where it
> makes sense, we'll be using shared resources.
>
> Here is a summary of what has come back:
>
>  - The mailing list works (obviously, since you're reading this).
>
>  - The LSB Wiki is up, at https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSBWiki.
> Old links (based off www instead of wiki) should work for a while
> longer, but the above location is intended to be the wiki's new
> permanent home.
>
> Short-term, there are several important priorities.  My goal is to have
> these more-or-less functional by December 12:
>
>  - Version control.  The git servers have come back, and bzr is next on
> the list.  We'll be getting rid of SSH access and PQM; read-only access
> will happen via HTTP, and commit/push access will happen over HTTPS.
> We've been wanting to make that change for a while, and now will be able to.
>
>  - FTP.  Once the new VM is up, I will host file download services.
> We'll be phasing out FTP-the-protocol in favor of all-HTTP downloads,
> and changing hostnames, paths, etc., but will support our old system for
> a short time while we upgrade our client tools, like the App Checker and
> Dist Checker, to do things the new way.
>
>  - Web services: Navigator and the certification system.  After FTP is
> up, I'll be working on bringing these up on the new VM.  As with FTP,
> it's likely the paths and locations will change, but we will support the
> old paths here as well.
>
>  - Bugzilla.  We have shared infrastructure for running Bugzilla, and
> have already brought up one instance (bugs.linuxfoundation.org).
> Bringing up the LSB Bugzilla should be a simple task.
>
> The rest of our services will be brought up after this.  It will likely
> take a month or more before we are fully back to the state we were in
> before the shutdown.  Among other tasks: we need to recreate our
> buildbot build network, bring up refspecs.linuxfoundation.org, bring up
> some of the ad-hoc developer Web services, and so on.
>
> I'll be following up as new services come online.  In the meantime,
> let's restart the weekly calls on Wednesday, starting next week.  And
> feel free to make the case for other priorities on the list.