Re: Hosting offer from Alter Way

* Dave Neary <dneary(a)redhat.com&gt; [2012-10-09 09:39]: > Hi board, > > The infra team have agreed that this is a good approach to follow. > > Alter Way have clarified that thir offer stands even if we host our > wiki and website on OpenShift rather than on their oVirt cloud > service. > > At this point, I need board approval of this hosting move, and the > counter-part which Alter Way are requesting (namely, acknowledgement > on the footer of pages of hosted services (Jenkins, Gerrit), > acknowledgement as a sponsor of the project on the "Project > supporters" page, and to have their H2O service be included as a > case study of an oVirt deployment on oVirt.org > > Personally I think this is all very reasonable. I agree as well. +1 > > I will be meeting Alter Way on Thursday in Paris - may I set a 2 day > deadline for feedback and approvals/disapprovals, and consider the > board concensus position at the end of that period (10:00 EST > Thursday)? > > Thanks, > Dave. > > On 10/02/2012 07:24 PM, Dave Neary wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Alter Way (oVirt user and community member, French company) have >> generously offered to host some of our services as part of their efforts >> to support the project. >> >> To give some background: The company is preparing a cloud offering based >> on oVirt nightlies running on Fedora. They are a hosting company (among >> other things) based in Paris, France. >> >> We talked to them about our needs for Jenkins, and after getting >> reassurance on the bandwidth requirements for the Jenkins server, they >> have ade the following offer: >> >> Alter Way will provide: >> - For Jenkins, 2 Bi Quad servers (with Jenkins running on bare metal) >> with 8 or 16 GB of RAM each and 2 fast 146 GB disks each, with RAID 10 >> for the 4 disks >> - For other services (Gerrit, Mailman, wiki, git): 1 or 2 VMs hosted >> on oVirt >> >> In return, they would like: >> - Recognition of the hosting in the page footer of the hosted services >> - Recognition as a project sponsor on the project sponsors and >> supporters page >> - The also offer to have their cloud service serve as a case study for >> the oVirt project >> >> I did discuss with Stéphane Vincent, their representative, that we might >> want to host some services elsewhere - we have previously talked about >> hosting the website on OpenShift. I've asked him (and am waiting for >> clarification) on whether that might affect their offer. >> >> In the meantime, I would like the opinions of the infra team - does this >> offer satisfy our needs and requirements for Jenkins? If that's the >> case, I would like to ask the board if they approve of the offer and the >> request to recognise Alter Way as a sponsor of the project? >> >> I will be seeing Alter way again next week at the Open World Forum, it >> would be really great if we could finalise this by then, and concentrate >> on getting a basic hosting agreement in place by then. >> >> Thank you all, >> Dave. >> > > -- > Dave Neary > Community Action and Impact > Open Source and Standards, Red Hat > Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > Board(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board