Hosting offer from Alter Way

[Dave Neary]

Great, thank you all!

It looks like I have 4 +1s, no negative votes, so I'll take this as a 
decision tomorrow.

Thanks,
Dave.

On 10/10/2012 06:03 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
> * Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com> [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.
>>>
>>
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