Hosting offer from Alter Way

[Perry Myers]

On 10/09/2012 10:34 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> 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 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.
>>

I don't see anything objectionable here.  +1 from me.

As an aside, what sort of SLA can we expect from them as the hosting
provider here?