[lsb-discuss] LSB and FHS restoration plan

[Wichmann, Mats D]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Jeff Licquia <jeff at licquia.org> wrote:



> 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.




It seems like some of the "easy" services should be brought up first.
refspecs is only a set of static web pages(*), and irc should be really
cheap
to restart.  It would make it look more like progress is happening...

* - sort of.  someone along the way thought it would be a good idea to
use server-side includes for these, so there is that, but it could be
eliminated easily enough.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/attachments/20111202/e5a6f837/attachment.html>