On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Sebastian
Pipping<webmaster@...> wrote:
> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> If this is combined with some sort of gentoo-infra based backups of
>> the data, it would be nice.
>
> Any ideas how we could organize that?
>

I don't know how the database is structured, but database backups of
gentoo-specific data would be nice to have. Simplest after that would
be for it to then just be stored on your dev.gentoo.org account (once
you're recruited ;). I believe dev.gentoo.org home directories are
part of the gentoo-infra backup system.

> As I understand load is quite high already (I think due to a high rate
> of submissions).  The gentoo stuff adds to the per-submission processing
> time considerably:  A machine with 500-1000 packages installed adds a
> few thousand DB rows easily.
>
> I have introduced batch processing (..) but it may need to be taken
> further and it's not upstream yet.  I'm positive about it, upstream is
> just a bit busy these days.
>

This sounds like a db-load distribution nightmare. Do keep us informed :)

> If I had a wish I'd say please update the running Redmine installation
> to a recent version (without killing the current data, please :-)).
>

I've actually been pondering that for a long time now, but I've been lazy :p

There are lots of improvements in the current upstream release. I'll
try to do the upgrade sometime this week, but it may take longer if
there are db migration problems.

> Also I'd really like to see more reviews, alchemy mentoring and
> contributions from others.
>

The key to that is to get a wider audience. Right now your audience is
limited to gentoo-soc + parts of gentoo-dev. If you could manage to
(say) get it into the handbooks as a recommended package, and/or into
the 10.0 release DVD, you'd get a flurry of activity w.r.t new users
and hence new contributors.

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo