Re: [libreoffice-website] results from admin meeting

Could you tell us what the current "infrastructure" is on?  Since it is 
being migrated to something else, it would be nice to know what it is 
being migrated from.



On 09/23/2012 11:04 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this weekend, Friedrich, Christian, Alex, Robert, Uwe and I met in 
> Munich for a admin meeting.
>
> The main objective was to migrate our infrastructure to Ubuntu 12.04, 
> deployed with Puppet. Unfortunately, it turned out that migrating 
> everything into Puppet is a *very* tedious process, and we expect it 
> will take until the end of the year, requiring several weekends to 
> work on.
>
> The effort is very well worth it, because using a tool like Puppet 
> helps us to deploy, document and scale our systems in the way we need 
> it, so manually doing many things like now is not an option anymore, 
> even if this delays the whole migration.
>
> Alex, Robert and I will work during the weekends whenever possible, 
> and keep you updated on the progress.
>
> Christian has been heavily working on getting the new credit card 
> payment system integrated into Silverstripe, and I'll follow up with a 
> mail on this later, since we might even launch it today.
>
> Besides, many other things have been worked on and been discussed. One 
> of the most contrary topic is how to document the infrastructure and 
> who is in charge. While right now, it's mostly me working on all the 
> documentation, this is clearly a bottleneck, also because our 
> infrastructure grows very quickly, requiring lots of new tools and 
> configuration options.
>
> Good news were that Max joined us on Sunday. I met him during my talk 
> at Munich's IT-Brunch. He is interested in joining the admin team, and 
> we try to get him involved into writing so called Puppet manifests 
> (i.e. Puppet configuration files), to eliminate that bottleneck.
>
> So much from the admin front for today,
> Florian


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