* ftpteam/Joerg Jaspert
+
+== merge.d.o ==
+
+I'd like to use Ubuntu's merge-o-matic to generate diffs between Debian's
+source archive and the source archives of various other Debian-based distros
+(Knoppix, Freespire, Mepis, Sidux, gNewSense and so on). The result will be
+much like patches.ubuntu.com. merge-o-matic downloads source packages, unpacks
+them and generates diffs against unpacked pure debian source packages. As a
+result lots of disk space would be required since the whole Debian archive plus
+an unpacked version of it and the same for each derivative distribution is
+needed.
+
+Requirements:
+
+* a system with sufficient disk space (how much is that?)
+
+Proposers:
+
+* Paul Wise
+
+
+== source.debian.org ==
+
+Idea: A machine which has all sources extracted from orig.tar.gz + diff applied for all dists.
+
+Requirements:
+
+* a system with sufficient disk space (how much is that?)
+
+Proposers:
+
+* Noel Koethe
+
+== new ftp-master ==
+
+ftp-master's hardware is becoming old and warranty is running out (we keep extending it, but that's not for free either).
+
+We probably should look into getting a new machine somewhere in the US. Apart
+from recent CPUs, reasonable amount of ram (16-32g?) and the usual management
+fu primary requirement is reliable storage. We probably should look at some
+raid6, either internal or external for the master copy of the archive in the range
+of 2-4T (is that right, ftp folks?). Additionally some faster internal storage
+could be useful for the database part of the ftp archive (4 disks raid10?).
+
+== new backup.d.o ==
+
+bartok, the current backup.d.o, is getting old too, and there is not all that
+much spare space.
+
+We should be looking at replacing that eventually. A raid6 of big SATA disks
+would probably provide the required robustness and be cost-effective.
+
+
+= 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.
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
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):
-== merge.d.o ==
-
-I'd like to use Ubuntu's merge-o-matic to generate diffs between Debian's
-source archive and the source archives of various other Debian-based distros
-(Knoppix, Freespire, Mepis, Sidux, gNewSense and so on). The result will be
-much like patches.ubuntu.com. merge-o-matic downloads source packages, unpacks
-them and generates diffs against unpacked pure debian source packages. As a
-result lots of disk space would be required since the whole Debian archive plus
-an unpacked version of it and the same for each derivative distribution is
-needed.
-
-Requirements:
-
-* a system with sufficient disk space (how much is that?)
-
-Proposers:
-
-* Paul Wise
-
-
-== source.debian.org ==
-
-Idea: A machine which has all sources extracted from orig.tar.gz + diff applied for all dists.
-
-Requirements:
-
-* a system with sufficient disk space (how much is that?)
-
-Proposers:
-
-* Noel Koethe
+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.