Fedora hosted planning

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 3 March 2015 at 13:22, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> So, looking at fedorahosted, I thought I would start some discussion
> about where we are and where we need to go short and longer term.
>
> Right now hosted03/04 are rhel6 and still in puppet. Short term, I
> would very much like to move them to ansible, and ideally to rhel7.
>
> I looked into the trac situation upstream. We are currently using
> 0.12.5 long term release on rhel6 (from epel6). There's a 0.12.6 thats
> out, but it looks like that might be the last release in the 0.12
> series (or there might be a 0.12.7, but thats likely to be it). They
> are looking at doing releases yearly if they can manage, so 1.2 would
> appear later this year, then 1.3, etc. It's not clear how long 1.0 will
> be supported really. At least a year, but not clear after that.
>
> So, as I see it, our options are:
>
> 1 Just move to ansible, leave on rhel6 for now until we decide
>   something better.
>
> 2 Move to ansible and rhel7, and build out trac-1.0 and plugins in
>   epel7. This will take a bit longer since there's so many plugins, but
>   shouldn't really be that hard.
>
> 3 Move to ansible and rhel7 and progit. I'm not sure if progit is ready
>   to replace trac though. I think it might need wiki features and also
>   more ticket handling stuff, since some of our projects use trac
>   ticketing heavily.
>
> 4 a combo of 2 and 3 (ie, offer trac and progit both)
>
> 5. a combo of 1 and 3 (ie, old trac projects stay on old hosted, we
> move ones that want to progit, eventually we have a flag day and move
> the rest).
>
>
5 sounds like the most likely. There are a lot of work flows which groups
are using with the current trac. If they didn't.. they would have probably
moved over to github by now. Having the old boxes on ansible is probably
faster by at least 18 months over getting people moved to the newer system.




> 6. Some other brilliant plan. ;)
>
> Thoughts? ideas? will also add this to the gobby doc to discuss in
> meeting.
>
> kevin
>
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-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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