X-Git-Url: https://git.adam-barratt.org.uk/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=input%2Fhardware-wishlist.creole;h=541a7da9fe4bc5b8a794af987d55a10205e1b31c;hb=4748598a49ca95a8569fb7638db087e00821ddeb;hp=562f2f292b2e31e91f0086a0af006f1500294b60;hpb=8fd58e3ebd7109f61b907bb42b2c544fa6b61466;p=mirror%2Fdsa-wiki.git diff --git a/input/hardware-wishlist.creole b/input/hardware-wishlist.creole index 562f2f2..541a7da 100644 --- a/input/hardware-wishlist.creole +++ b/input/hardware-wishlist.creole @@ -1,28 +1,5 @@ = Hardware Wishlist = -== snapshot.debian.org == - -Currently snapshot.debian.net is operated by a single individual on their -hardware at home. It is a service archiving old binary and source packages. -Access to old packages, which have in the meantime been deleted from the -regular debian archive, allows Developers and Users to debug upgrade problems, -to check when regressions were introduced, to check if old packages had been -miscompiled, to downgrade to older versions while bugs are being fixed etc. - -Requirements: - -* Two systems with sufficient storage, hosted somewhere not in the US (so we - can import old non-US into it). -* Storage should be at least on the order of 8T (currently snapshot.d.n is - using about 4T), and easily expandable -* remote management stuff - -Proposers: - -* Joerg Jaspert/ftpteam -* Peter Palfrader - - == data.d.o == A service by ftpmaster to host larger arch-all packages for datasets like @@ -36,6 +13,23 @@ Proposers: * ftpteam/Joerg Jaspert + += Historical = + +These proposals probably are no longer relevant: + +== 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 debian mail setup == A set of systems that will handle all incoming mail for all debian systems. @@ -62,6 +56,16 @@ 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 @@ -77,9 +81,9 @@ 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) + 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 + pushes the changes to the web facing servers. Proposers: @@ -89,38 +93,14 @@ 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): -== 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. == new ftp-master == @@ -133,11 +113,6 @@ raid6, either internal or external for the master copy of the archive in the ran 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. +Status (2010-05-20): +HP DL380 G6 machine in place at CS Dept. Brown University. In setup