Re: Translation status pages

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On à., 2005-10-08 at 10:42 +0200, Carlos Perellà MarÃn wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:57 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> > ons 2005-10-05 klockan 10:44 +0200 skrev Carlos Perellà MarÃn:
> > > > > If you'd prefer not to host it on your own server, and if there is
> > > > > willing to maintain it, I expect some space could possibly be arranged
> > > > > on one of the real gnome.org servers. It's just easier for the GNOME
> > > > > sysadmins to set up a DNS entry than it is to set up new user accounts
> > > > > and a secure/capable hosting area etc. It would probably get rolling
> > > > > quicker if hosted externally, at least to begin with ;)
> > > > 
> > > > I agree with Ross; an external solution is probably the best in the
> > > > short run, but in the long run, GNOME translation status pages and the
> > > > translation status page scripts make sense to have hosted on the
> > > > gnome.org servers. That will make sure that:
> > > > 
> > > > * There are always several people distributed around the world who can
> > > > access the machine and fix it if needed (gnome.org sysadmins)
> > > > * The pipe is already a *very* Fat (tm) one
> > > > * The status pages will not be inaccessible again when some single
> > > > individual moves/goes on vacation/loses his job/gets hit by a bus and is
> > > > unable to maintain them
> > > > * The translation status pages will have access to the repository which
> > > > sits right next to it at the very same location
> > > > 
> > > > The only thing needed for the translation status pages to be hosted at
> > > > the real, live gnome.org servers is for someone to figure out what kind
> > > > of CPU/memory/disk resources it needs, and is prepared to help set it
> > > > up, or at least give sufficient instructions for having it set up.
> > > > 
> > > > So what's the required configuration?
> > > 
> > > root gandalf:/srv/l10n # du -hs .
> > > 6.9G    .
> > > 
> > > and the process takes near 4 hours with an AMD Sempron(tm)   2800+ and
> > > 768MB of RAM
> > > 
> > > With more RAM and faster CPU the process should be also faster. The main
> > > problem here is the hard disk I/O that's why we had to move it outside
> > > widget the first time, the server load was really high.
> > 
> > widget has since then been replaced by window. window.gnome.org is a
> > dual Xeon 2.8 GHz server with 2 GB memory and RAID1 SCSI disks.
> > 
> > This should be doable, right?
> 
> Sure, the server works, the problem are the other process on that
> machine not the generation of the status pages... I'm not able to tell
> you if that machine will work or not, sorry.

It was decided that we wouldn't be doing it on window. We could do it on
container if necessary, but as Intel have sent us a shiny dedicated new
i18n server, we may as well start to make use of that. We're just
waiting on it being plugged into the colo.

So, in the meantime, would it be possible for you to post the scripts
you use for the translation status pages somewhere, and perhaps write up
some brief notes/HOWTO (e.g. a l.g.o. wiki page) to help anyone (i.e.
me) get things set up on a given box. In the meantime, I'll get the
script(s) checked into a CVS module somewhere, start some
sysadmin-oriented maintenance notes on the wiki and install and test it
all on the Intel server as soon as it hits the rack, and we can take it
from there (e.g. DNS updates etc).

Any questions? 

--
Ross