[Mageia-sysadm] Wiki setup

Mon Jan 10 09:31:04 CET 2011

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:07, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 00:24 +0100, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+>> The question is, do we need to plan today for this kind of scaling issue?
+>
+> I do not think, but on the other hand, it may much easier now that
+> later. And well, even if there is lots of ram on alamut, I wonder what
+> would happen if we do have a crash ( ie, would we be able to cope with
+> the load spread on other server in case of crash ).
+>
+> We do not intend to have a crash, and so far, i think we would be mostly
+> safe ( once we do have a backup server ), but it is not to me to remind
+> the fate of Mandriva servers :/
+
+Yep. But we might then better have some sort of proxy with a set of
+servers behind to distribute the requests to.
+
+If en.wiki.mageia.org was to crash, for instance, ok,
+fr.wiki.mageia.org (and others) could be still online, but that
+wouldn't help that en.wiki would be down nonetheless. If we had a
+security issue on one wiki, all wiki sharing the same codebase, the
+issue would be everywhere anyway.
+
+If we had wiki1.mageia.org, wiki2.mageia, etc. and a proxy in front,
+that would allow to distribute load and manage server crash (and
+adding/replacing one server could be less troublesome regarding
+service avaibility). And there are probably other options too.
+
+>> That would be a wiki team (that is a mix of i18n and doc team I
+>> guess?). Against a specific policy (like, having a sufficient list of
+>> involved-enough people to take care of a newly open wiki locale).
+>
+> Yup, so that should be decided ( not right now, but taken care if
+> possible before announcing the wiki ).
+>
+> Just also to be sure, we do not plan for any specific complex acl ?
+> ( IMHO, we should try to avoid, and if not possible, use group acl if
+> possible, and in last ressort, login based acl to avoid duplication ).
+
+Not at this time.
+
+>> > Do we ever plan to have wiki not linked to language content ? ( like per
+>> > team wiki, or that will be section on the english one ? )
+>>
+>> I did not understand this one. :)
+>
+> Ie, there will be only wiki/en, wiki/de, wiki/pt ?
+>
+> No wiki/team/sysadmin/ , or something like that, or per project wiki if
+> any ?
+
+Not at this time, but can not totally rule this out in the future (I
+don't see a capacity/need to do this before at least 1 year).
+
+> Good, so that mean that there is only 1 wiki team, and not several one
+> ( like it was at Mandriva (or at least, like i thought it was)).
+
+To my knowledge, on the technical side, there was a single set of
+people. On the content side, there was about one "team" (ranging from
+0 to several people) per locale.
+
+> I assume that this will be handled like i18n ?
+
+With a single team to coordinate the platform for everyone? Yes.
+
+Cheers,
+
+Romain
+