[cdwg] New Wiki for OpenSFS

[Hamilton, Pam]

github provides integrated issue tracking:

https://github.com/features/projects

Manpower is an issue for OpenSFS and, in my opinion, always will be as long as we remain a completely volunteer organization. Those of us actively involved in OpenSFS have full-time jobs. Whatever services OpenSFS wants to offer must remain as low overhead as possible.

I can say as Chris' manager that he doesn't have time to evaluate Confluence/JIRA and what it would take for OpenSFS to use a hosted instance of it. Based on our experience here at Livermore Computing with bringing up Confluence/JIRA, I expect even a hosted instance is going to require some amount of care and feeding.

Regards,
Pam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdwg-bounces at lists.opensfs.org [mailto:cdwg-
> bounces at lists.opensfs.org] On Behalf Of Shipman, Galen M.
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 7:35 PM
> To: Morrone, Chris
> Cc: cdwg at lists.opensfs.org
> Subject: Re: [cdwg] New Wiki for OpenSFS
> 
> 
> On Nov 7, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> 
> OpenSFS has had hosted services available for over two years on github,
> and they have gone completely unused.  What development projects does
> OpenSFS plan to engage in, and what services do those projects need?
> 
> 
> We have some folks from NASA that have expressed interest in releasing
> software through OpenSFS, in the past ORNL expressed interest in
> hosting a repo and releasing software through OpenSFS.
> I would assume that if we had software released through OpenSFS it
> would be good to have a trouble ticket system such as Jira. I wasn't
> aware that we have an OpenSFS github instance. Can you send me the
> details off list?
> 
> 
> We need a wiki.  Lets stick to that for now.
> 
> 
> Certainly covering one item at a time make sense, just pointing out
> that we could provide other hosted services along with Confluence.
> 
> Could we use a hosted Confluence?  Yes, we could.  Are you volunteering
> ORNL man power to work on this?  If so, in what time frame can you have
> the evaluation done?  The setup done?
> 
> So this is a manpower issue at heart if Confluence is a hosted service?
> You anticipate this requiring more effort than MediaWiki because it is
> setting up a new service or is it the ongoing care/feeding of the
> system the issue?
> We could look into getting some IT resources at ORNL to help with this
> but I do wonder if we are getting close to the point that it would make
> sense for OpenSFS to have a part-time sysadmin for these types of
> activities.
> Not sure if the total level of admin effort expended at this point
> warrants this, do you have a sense for the amount of volunteer time
> goes into these types of things today? How about in the future with a
> more rich web presence, will things uptick from this as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Galen
> 
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