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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?
  
This report is a summary of activities undertaken by the OSGeo SAC committee.  It is
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== Key Accomplishments ==
expected that portions of this document will be included in the OSGeo Annual Report, and
 
this document is not meant to be entirely inclusive.
 
  
=== 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, ...
  
This report covers the period of April 21st, 2006 until December 31st, 2007.
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== Work Areas ==
  
== 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...
  
The SAC committee was formally convened on April 21st, 2006 at the [[Seventh_Board_Meeting]], with
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== Outlook for 2008 ==
Norman Vine being appointed chair. 
 
  
== Early to Mid 2006 Activities ==
 
  
During SAC's early days, the focus was on coordinating OSGeo's collaboration with
 
http://www.telascience.org.  The ultimate outcome of these activities was OSGeo's use
 
of the "TelaScience blades" for things like http://download.osgeo.org, providing
 
resources for the GeoData committee, and providing various resources for member projects. 
 
  
== Mid to Late 2006 Activities ==
 
  
By the middle of 2006, it was becoming clear that CollabNet was not going to meet
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[[Category: Reports 2007]]
the organization's needs or fit the organization's workflow and we would be needing to
 
move off of CollabNet and on to our own platform.  Activities in this time period related to
 
preparing for the migration and taking on new members to help with the effort.  By coordinating
 
with other committees such as WebCom, PEER1 was decided to be our hosting provider, with
 
two capable machines being requisitioned. 
 
 
 
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