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== System Administration Committee (SAC) 2007 Annual Report ==
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= Systems Administration Committee =
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* Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007
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* Contact name: Howard Butler
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* Members: Howard Butler (chair), Norman Vine, John Graham, Gary Sherman, Daniel Morissette, Martin Spott, Wolf Bergenheim, Frank Warmerdam, Shawn Barnes, Who did I forget?
  
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This report is a summary of activities undertaken by the OSGeo SAC committee.  It is
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== Key Accomplishments ==
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expected that portions of this document will be included in the OSGeo Annual Report, and
 
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this document is not meant to be entirely inclusive.
 
  
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=== Report Period ===
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* Completely migrated away from CollabNet and implemented our own infrastructure, which is hosted at Peer1.
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* Implemented LDAP, Trac, Subversion, Mediawiki, Mailman, Drupal, Buildbot, download server, Subversion mirror, ...
  
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This report covers the period of April 21st, 2006 until December 31st, 2007.
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== Work Areas ==
  
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== Formation Motion ==
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* Remove the wildcard DNS entry for *.osgeo.org, which greatly complicates and limits our infrastructure maintenance.
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* Continue migrating member projects who wish to have critical infrastructure bits like Subversion and Trac be hosted by OSGeo.
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* Continue towards single sign-on goal (we have Trac, Subversion and Drupal running off LDAP, need Mediawiki, blade logins?)
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* Keep the lights on...
  
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The SAC committee was formally convened on April 21st, 2006 at the [[Seventh_Board_Meeting]], with
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== Outlook for 2008 ==
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Norman Vine being appointed chair. 
 
  
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== Early to Mid 2006 Activities ==
 
  
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During SAC's early days, the focus was on coordinating OSGeo's collaboration with
 
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http://www.telascience.org.  The ultimate outcome of these activities was OSGeo's use
 
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of the "TelaScience blades" for things like http://download.osgeo.org, providing
 
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resources for the GeoData committee, and providing various resources for member projects. 
 
  
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== Mid to Late 2006 Activities ==
 
  
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By the middle of 2006, it was becoming clear that CollabNet was not going to meet
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[[Category: Reports 2007]]
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the organization's needs or fit the organization's workflow and we would be needing to
 
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move off of CollabNet and on to our own platform.  Activities in this time period related to
 
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preparing for the migration and taking on new members to help with the effort.  By coordinating
 
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with other committees such as WebCom, PEER1 was decided to be our hosting provider, with
 
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two capable machines being requisitioned. 
 
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To be continued...
 

Latest revision as of 11:21, 28 January 2008

Systems Administration Committee

  • Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007
  • Contact name: Howard Butler
  • Members: Howard Butler (chair), Norman Vine, John Graham, Gary Sherman, Daniel Morissette, Martin Spott, Wolf Bergenheim, Frank Warmerdam, Shawn Barnes, Who did I forget?

Key Accomplishments

  • Completely migrated away from CollabNet and implemented our own infrastructure, which is hosted at Peer1.
  • Implemented LDAP, Trac, Subversion, Mediawiki, Mailman, Drupal, Buildbot, download server, Subversion mirror, ...

Work Areas

  • Remove the wildcard DNS entry for *.osgeo.org, which greatly complicates and limits our infrastructure maintenance.
  • Continue migrating member projects who wish to have critical infrastructure bits like Subversion and Trac be hosted by OSGeo.
  • Continue towards single sign-on goal (we have Trac, Subversion and Drupal running off LDAP, need Mediawiki, blade logins?)
  • Keep the lights on...

Outlook for 2008

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