Re: MeeGo OBSes

On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:35 AM, David Greaves wrote:

> On 12/08/11 16:02, Foster, Dawn M wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 12, 2011, at 5:23 AM, David Greaves wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/08/11 09:35, David Greaves wrote:
>>>> Hi Anas
>>>> 
>>>> cc meego-it : trying to keep our comms open and public.
>>>> 
>>>> As you know there have been a few instances recently when the main OBS has gone
>>>> down over the weekend and there's either been no-one about to deal with it or it
>>>> hasn't been clear if a problem has arisen and been resolved.
>>>> 
>>>> We've spoken before about how the main OBS and other systems are still not
>>>> readily supported by MeeGo IT - can we start to plan how to resolve this.
>>>> 
>>>> I know it's short notice but could you join us on the IT conference call this
>>>> evening. I'll send you the details.
>>> 
>>> Anas ... just a quick ping to see if you got this?
>>> 
>>> Dawn - if I remember correctly, Adam mentioned this could also fall into your
>>> area of responsibility ... can you confirm or deny?
>>> 
>>> Anyone know if Anas is on vacation or anything?
>> 
>> We talked to Anas, and the main OBS needs to continue to fall under release
>> engineering rather than IT. Release engineering is working on fixing the
>> current issues.
> 
> I don't think there's any intention of having the main OBS 'under' IT; clearly 
> it belongs to RE and they manage it.
> 
> However we do have limited resource and it seems sensible to cooperate on 
> managing our infrastructure in a coherent manner.
> 
> Would it not make sense to at least have some commonality in operations between 
> the RE managed infrastructure and the IT managed infrastructure... the machines 
> sit in racks within a few feet of each other and connect to the same basic LAN.
> 
> For example we're starting to improve our monitoring activities and it seems 
> very wasteful to do that kind of work twice.

I think it would be an excellent idea for you to share what you're learning with 
release engineering. Adam can help with that; however, access to the main
OBS will continue to be limited to the release engineering team.

Dawn