Re: [Mifos-users] [Mifos-developer] REQUEST FOR HELP: Volunteers to maintain community infrastructure

[George C. <gc...@gm...>]

Seems like there are two different but related components to this:
- actual "ownership" of the infrastructure (only relevant in some cases)
- administration/maintenance of infrastructure

For example, mifos.org needs someone to host the website (or pay for Amazon), pay for the domain registration, etc., and also (separately or same person/org) to maintain the Drupal site, etc.

the mailing lists etc are on other people's infrastructure, so just need maintenance.

one suggestion: as we transition some of the tools & content to others for management & administration, it seems like there's a cleanup opportunity too - in the wiki etc there's a lot of outdated content and it might be nice to think about how to make a fresh start for much of the content/documentation, maybe simplifying it all since resources to manage will presumably be fewer six months from now.

On Jun 24, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Ed Cable wrote:

> Hello community,
> 
> As Mifos sets on off its next phase, independent and separate from Grameen Foundation,  the community will now have the opportunity to take on greater responsibilities to maintain the product and project moving forward. There a number of key tasks around maintaining infrastructure that we are seeking volunteers to help lead.  
> 
> The remaining members of the Mifos team are slowly transitioning away from their roles as paid staff so we want to begin this discussion to prepare the community to take on new responsibilities. 
> 
> Over the coming weeks, we'll start other discussion on maintenance of other tools like translation and documentation.  Ultimately, we would like to group interested community members into teams of volunteers to oversee core areas of the project and infrastructure.
> 
> Please respond to this thread if you'd like assist with some of the below activities:
> 
> Web Infrastructure:
> 
> Fortunately most of our tools are hosted solutions that we don't directly have to administer and maintain. A number of sites and resources we must directly administer and will need additional help.  These include maintaining Mifos.org which is built on Drupal and hosted on Amazon, and our build server which contains our test servers and continous integration servers. Remote systems administration is needed for the servers and application of security patches and bug fixes to the Drupal site as needed.  Jim Stamper and Keith Pierce have already express interested in helping maintain this infrastructure. 
> 
> Collaboration Infrastructure:
> 
> Day to day maintenance of our collaboration and communication tools including our mailing lists, wiki, issue tracker, IRC channel, etc.  All of these tools are hosted externally so the main assistance is needed with administration of accounts and permissions and moderation of content.  Please reply to this thread if you would like to assist with moderation of the mailing list powered by sourceforge.net, accessing mailing list archives on GoogleGroups and GMANE, maintaining IRC chat log archives, and administering permissions for MifosForge which hosts our JIRA and Confluence tools. 
> 
> As it always has been, the lifeblood of our community is the content we share and the conversations we have on the mailing lists.  We ask that as members of the community you be even more proactive to ask questions, share content, and support each other through these tools.  
> 
> Source Code Repository:
> 
> The Mifos source code is hosted in a git repository on sourceforge.net.  We're looking to distribute maintenance of the repository around multiple key community members.  Please reply if you're interested in getting commit privileges to help maintain the source code. 
> 
> Stay tuned for more opportunities to help transition the infrastructure of the project and we welcome the help of anyone from the community.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ed Cable
> Mifos Community Manager
> 
> 
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