+
+= Historical =
+
+These proposals probably are no longer relevant:
+
+== new debian mail setup ==
+
+A set of systems that will handle all incoming mail for all debian systems.
+Currently our incoming mail handling is on the individual host hosting a
+service, i.e. on master.debian.org for @debian.org, on bugs.debian.org for the
+bug tracking system, on lists.debian.org for our mailinglists and on several
+other systems for their individual, smaller email traffic.
+
+Centralizing email handling will allow us to maintain our anti-spam measures in
+a single point, avoiding duplicate work and hopefully improving our success.
+
+Requirements:
+
+* Four or so systems, in at least two different locations, capable of handling
+ modern anti-spam software. This probably needs a bit of CPU.
+* remote management stuff
+
+Proposers:
+
+* Martin Zobel-Helas
+* Stephen Gran
+
+We probably have sufficient hardware for this. Current plan involves using one
+new box from HP, murphy, a new old sparc that zobel gets from some place, and
+puccini that will soon no longer have packages on it.
+
+Status (2009-05-02):
+
+We probably still eventually want to move to a more cenralized setup for all
+the low-traffic leaf-sites, but momentum on the Big Mail Setup Change seems
+to have pretty much died. Since Stephen put quite a lot of work into making
+our exim setup more readable, maintainable and we are using the same config now
+everywhere, at least some of the reasons for this proposal are no longer valid.
+It still might make sense to eventually move @debian.org mail from master to a new
+system but we don't need 4 dedicated hosts for that, probably. (weasel)
+
+== new bugs.d.o ==
+
+Currently bugs runs on a single DL385g1 system which cannot keep up with the
+load that the BTS causes.
+
+Owner@bugs would like to split the BTS accross multiple hosts: two for incoming
+email and spam filtering (would not be required if we had the setup mentioned
+above), one master, and at least two user-facing web servers.
+
+Requirements (assuming the above mentioned mail system is in place, else add
+two mail servers):
+
+* two systems with fast disks (we don't need that much storage, some 200 gigs
+ should suffice easily for a while - say 4x140 gig raid10), some ram for
+ caching (say 16g?), and the CPU to handle the scripts (if we can get two quad
+ cores per box that would be great).
+* one master that processes incoming email, changing bugs as required, and
+ pushes the changes to the web facing servers.
+
+Proposers:
+
+* Don Armstrong
+
+If the snapshot hosts go through we might be able to put the bugs front end
+webservers on them too. Probably a question of load but it can't hardly be
+worse than rietz at the moment.
+
+Status (2009-05-04):
+
+We were quite successful in using other hosts as bugs web mirrors (even if
+right now we aren't running any due to other hardware failing), so that is
+a more or less solved problem. We also intent to move bugs-master to a kvm
+domain at ubc/ece once the blade there is fixed. And we can probably move
+incoming MX to a blade instance in darmstadt and another one at the same
+place as new bugs-master will be if the bugs folks still want that.