[Openinteract-help] upcoming infrastructure changes

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

A month ago I asked the community for some help in obtaining 
infrastructure for a new openinteract.org|com website (plus some other 
stuff) and you responded. Thanks to the generous donations from:

  * HappyCool/National Auto Sport Association
  * John Sequeira

I've been able to buy a new server and the necessary components to make 
it go. (It's running my website right now...) It's not a monster, but I 
expect this machine to be able to handle all the tasks we've laid out 
for it without too much strain. This weekend I plan to drive it down to 
Washington, DC to its new home on a rack at Atlantech Online, courtesy 
of Davison Associates who is offering us free hosting via space on 
their rack.

The infrastructure changes will be phased in over the next few weeks. 
They will be:

* Creating the new openinteract.org|com website
This will include the relevant information from the old site plus 
incorporate the wiki, links to new infrastructure (demos, ViewCVS, 
issue tracking, mailing lists, etc.)

I may need some graphical design help in this area, so if you're game 
drop me a line.

* Using a new issue tracking system
This will use JIRA (http://atlassian.com/software/jira/); it's in Java, 
not Perl, but it rocks and it's free-as-in-beer. (They're smart guys 
and offer free licenses to opensource projects) Plus I already know it 
very well :-)

* Moving the wiki and other openinteract|spops.sf.net info off 
sourceforge
No explanation needed.

* Moving CVS off SourceForge
I'll keep anonymous access and a ViewCVS window into the repository.

* Moving the mailing lists off SourceForge
This is the only part where I think there's a question. I plan on 
keeping the -announce and -commits mailing lists, but wonder if it 
might be a good idea to merge the -dev and -help mailing lists. 
Typically you split them if there's a lot of conflicting traffic. Since 
we don't have that it might just make sense to create a -users list 
from the two. What do you think?

I'll keep you posted,

Chris

PS - Yes, we're still accepting donations. They'll initially go to 
offset some of my higher than expected costs; after that they'll go to 
hardware upgrades (more memory never killed anyone, nor did bigger hard 
drives or faster CPUs).

--
Chris Winters
Creating enterprise-capable snack systems since 1988