[Savannah-hackers] Re: What's up?

[Mathieu Roy]

Nic <address@hidden> said:

> Nic said:
> > Maybe we can just NFS map some space in?
> 
> Mathieu replied: 
> > According to my experience, NFS does not really fit for server with
> > got many many accesses, we will surely experience new problem not
> > trivial to fix. 
> > I think that getting an harddisk would be something easier.
> 
> Maybe it would. But I think NFS would work if we could partition the
> CVS directories into 2 or 3. That's what takes up the space.
> 

Once I'll had a clean backend it will be possible. At this moment, I
let the backend rotting until we decide the new database. We'll surely
make a proposal this evening, wait for comments during the weekend and
implement it the next week.


> > The RSS stuff is indeed a good addition. And you're right, any
> > enhancement that can save admin time is a good thing. But what takes
> > more time is the review of the pending projects, and it requires some
> > experience, despite the fact that we wrote a savannah.el that reduce
> > per 10 the time it require to do that job.
> 
> Yes. This is what takes the time. I think there's a clear separation
> between people who are dealing with technical issues with the
> savannah environment (ie: support requests, bugs, sysadmin issues)
> and people who are moderating new projects. 
> 
> The moderators need to be the sort of people you describe above:
> people with some time dedicated to doing it.
> 
> IMHO the admins (people who are responding to support requests,
> etc...) don't need to be people with lots of time. We just need to
> co-ordinate well.

Right.


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