On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 16:03 -0500, Ricky Zhou wrote: > At today's meeting, we started a discussion of what kind of requirements > we should have for moving some services to externally hosted versions > (like Transifex to tx.net or Wordpress blogs to wordpress.com). > > Here's are some initial items that we came up with at the meeting. > While it's often still useful to consider these on a case-by-case basis, > let's get a good list of requirements to talk about when looking at > hosted services. > > 1) Some level of freeness (unclear where we draw the line) Agreed - is a freesoftware API/bindings enough? For example ec2 using python-boto? > 2) Configuration management for some services this is important for maintainability -for others, like blogs, less so. > 3) Backups > 4) Ability to get data out 3 and 4 are coupled in my mind. > 5) authn/authz - this is a fun an painful discussion about how we federate apps. > 6) Level of support (for managed hosting like wordpress/tx) This should be broken out into: Level of support offered by service and Level of support we're currently able to successfully offer. B/c there is 'desired' supoort level and 'reality' and those two do not necessarily align. > 7) Cost (compared to our own maintenance costs) indeed -sv _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
