Good afternoon, at wildintellect’s request, I’d like to introduce myself to the SAC.
I’ve been admining linux based servers since the 1990s, postgres since PG95, as well as various and sundry other services, but have been mostly out of it commercially since around 2000. For my personal machines, I generally run Funtoo backed by ZFS, but have experience running many other linux distros, as well as other Unix environments.
My current OSGeo related work involves testing gdal in various configurations with the goal of optimizing performance and format support while maintaining correctness and compatability. I am working to allow multiple versions of gdal and any of the libraries it depends on to coexist peacefully on a running system, including allowing building against any chosen version. In doing so, I have come across projects with dead upstream development which are in danger of disappearing and which need a home, so dbb and I are currently working on establishing an orphanage for such project on the osgeo gitea platform to provide a means of saving and maintaining them going forward. I’m also working with the OSGeoLive project to test builds and the build system going into the next release.
Feel free to let me know if there is anything I can do to assist the SA team.
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 02:17:41PM -0800, Chris Giorgi wrote:
I am working to allow
multiple versions of gdal and any of the libraries it depends on to coexist
peacefully on a running system, including allowing building against any
chosen version.
Wow, this would be such a step forward ! Good luck with it
Feel free to let me know if there is anything I can do to assist the SA
team.
I'm sure you'll easily find by yourself what needs to be done.
The issue tracker is full of open tickets, and I saw you already
started looking at them and triaging, that's of great help already !
The wiki contains information on the current infrastructure, starting
from https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC_Service_Status - asking questions
and writing answers on the wiki is another great way to help while
learning about systems at the same time.
We have a SAC meeting every 2 weeks which you can attend, last one
was yesterday, more info should be found on the wiki (improving
cross references if missing is also useful).
I'd love to figure out how to make services more responsive, as an
high level goal for OSGeo infrastructure (trac in particular is
often suffering of being extremely slow). Not sure how you could
help with that though, w/out joining SAC ufficially and thus
getting shell access. Something to consider
