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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: postgresql.org mail infrastructure
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:32:45 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Dave Page wrote:
> The postgresql.org mail infrastructure is currently deeply intertwined
> with the hub.org system. This makes it difficult for the 2 non-hub.org
> people who have access to manage the systems, and means that any
> problems with hub.org affect us, and any problems caused by us will
> affect hub.org customers.

yeah - I think this fact adds quite some complexity to the whole system 
- and keeping things simple is quite often a really good concept.

> 
> I propose that we build a replacement mail system, tailored to our
> needs. This would be built on our existing FreeBSD infrastructure and
> would be managed by members of the existing sysadmin team including
> myself, Magnus, Stefan and Marc. Further, it has been suggested that
> OmniTI may be able to offer assistance.
> 
> Can I please get a show of hands for and against progressing with such
> a project?

well such a project would be a fairly large undertaking and needs to be 
planned properly - but +1 on the idea of decoupling the hub.org 
infrastructure from the postgresql.org on at least a logical (ie 
seperate jails) level.


Stefan

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