[steering] isaac's design

[Dean Mah]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:43:22PM +0000, Martin Burns wrote:

> > teo currently hosts leo,
>
> Could leo go to a rackshack box (eg the eouk one) pretty easily?

Things to note:

1) Specialized version of mailman (may not be that specialized, Dan
   pushed a lot of changes into mailman development a long time ago).
   Although I've made changes as well, notably to archiving and
   suspicious header reporting.

2) Archives and the ability to load thelist e-mail into Oracle for tip
   processing and presentation.  This would likely mean being able to
   connect to Oracle from wherever the final host is.

3) Performance enhancements.  Do we dump the idea of relays altogether?

Point 2 is especially difficult to overcome unless we re-architect the
tip harvesting.  We need the ability to tweak the software and build
up around it.


> >deo, beo, aeo,
>
> Are we using aeo?

No, but it could be at some point.


> > feo,
>
> Is feo realistically going to happen? Except possibly as part of an
> evolters.org thing

Yes, if someone tells me the categorys and the divisions that were set
up or that they want to be set up.  Or if I am able to dredge the
various mailing lists hoping that there is enough data in there to fix
it.


> Without wanting to go down the route of detail (which is prob better
> handled within sysadmin), what do we as steering think of the idea
> of consolidating at somewhere like rackshack?

Fine, if it can meet the requirements.


> Certainly it makes a lot of financial sense, particularly if Ron
> feels the need to honestly charge us. It'll also answer the
> questions you had at the end:

Some of them at least.

Dean