[fedora-india] Moving Ask Fedora from devel to staging

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

We have been running a devel instance at
http://ask01.dev.fedoraproject.org:8888/ for a while now and upstream
has fixed a number of issues that we reported and I had a discussion
with the Fedora Infrastructure team on moving it from devel to staging. 
I hope to get this done within say a couple of weeks max.  For that we
have to do a few things more.  If anyone wants to help out, let me know

*  Configure Apache with mod_wsgi and make Askbot use that.
Documentation at http://askbot.org/doc/deployment.html
*  Configure Askbot to work with Postfix and setup cron jobs and ensure
that mail notifications are working as expected
*  Document the steps required and any customizations we have done as
pert http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_SOP_SOP to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Askbot

Ask Fedora would depend on

* RHEL 6 + EPEL 6
* Apache httpd
* Memcached
* Postfix
* Postgres

We are not going to use Nginx or ha-proxy/varnish for now.   Once we
move it into staging,  infrastructure team will help us figure out
whether we have to run our memcached, postfix and postgres or reuse the
existing infrastructure for these.   Fedora infrastructure team has
staging instances with RHEL 6 but not production instances for us yet.   

One item is probably something that is needed for production but nice to
have for staging

*  Better CSS.  I have talked to Suchakra and he has done some changes
already and I have also added Hiemashu to sysadmin-ask and he has agreed
to help with this.  In particular the fonts needs to be fixed to use the
Fedora defaults and styling needs to be be more appealing. 

Any questions?  Let me know. 

Rahul