Wiki and Forum vms.

[jan i <ja...@apache.org>]

Hi all

This is just an update to keep you all informed about whats happening with
our vms.

Having looked at the vms, I have identified a couple of severe issues:
- We cannot update to ubuntu 14.04.1, that requires puppet3 (we currently
use puppet2).
- The diskspace on / of wiki is too restricted (logs should be moved to
somewhere else).
- ATS on wiki is past end of life, and should be removed/replaced
- php2bb should be updated.
- Some forums seems unused, but still use db connections

Remark: these problems are NOT caused by the maintenance pescetti did,
which was OK, but the fact that we as project should have acted long time
ago.

I have had a discussion with infra about how best to address these issues,
and our common opinion, is that the best solution is to roll 1 or 2 new
vms, install the applications again. Furthermore look into having ATS (new
version) running in a separate vm to help take load from both forum and vm.

This is of course a task, that takes some careful planning, and not
something I "just" plan to do a weekend where I have time.

I hope to be able to do this end of this year.

rgds
jan i.

Re: Wiki and Forum vms.

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

On 04/12/2014 jan i wrote:
> This is just an update to keep you all informed about whats happening with
> our vms.

Thanks a lot for the update.

> Having looked at the vms, I have identified a couple of severe issues:
> - We cannot update to ubuntu 14.04.1, that requires puppet3 (we currently
> use puppet2).
> - The diskspace on / of wiki is too restricted (logs should be moved to
> somewhere else).
> - ATS on wiki is past end of life, and should be removed/replaced
> - php2bb should be updated.
> - Some forums seems unused, but still use db connections

Especially the first one is quite bad in view of future upgrades. As for 
the logs, we probably keep too many logs, so yes the space is restricted 
but also logs can be reduced. The application part is, as always, 
complex since we use some mods and not everything is completely 
documented (again, due to legacy configuration). But maybe we don't need 
all of those.

> Remark: these problems are NOT caused by the maintenance pescetti did

Well, this wouldn't be a problem. In this case, I confirm they are 
long-standing issues, but of course if there are fixes to be done, it's 
not important at all whether this would revert previous work done by me: 
if it can be done better, no problems at all.

> I have had a discussion with infra about how best to address these issues,
> and our common opinion, is that the best solution is to roll 1 or 2 new
> vms, install the applications again. Furthermore look into having ATS (new
> version) running in a separate vm to help take load from both forum and vm.

This would be very good and much more than one would do as "ordinary" 
maintenance. Especially for the forum this would improve the current 
situation in terms of future maintainability.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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