[Mageia-sysadm] questions about our infrastructure setup & costs

Tue Apr 3 10:34:39 CEST 2012

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 21:00, Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Well, you have the hardware we paid, no ?
+> The accounting is on the bank account, and despites requiring searching, it
+> was published.
+>
+> If iyou need information on the hardware we got at the beggining, I can send
+> on this list a partial history of where
+> does every piece of hardware come from, if that what you need, but I prefer to
+> be sure that's really what you need before spending a afternoon on this.
+
+It's more important, looking ahead, to know what is needed, because
+the costs of the infrastructure before and today (offered/acquired
+hardware, hosting, etc.) are not the same for hardware/services
+available today or tomorrow. For a given service, the needs are known
+and stable (or can be planned). The cost (and options) of that
+infrastructure, on the other hand, may change more rapidly with time
+(up or down).
+
+> Basically : [...]
+
+> I do not say that's not a good idea to document ( I started to write
+> various SOP on the wiki ), just that I fear that no one will
+> be motivated to do it and to keep it up to date, especially for such a huge
+> document.
+
+Thanks for the tips anyway, I'll see what I can prepare with that,
+although I'm afraid it's useless, given some echoes to this thread
+(here and elsewhere). I won't be able to plan for your (sysadmin)
+capacities and needs (that means, looking 2/3 years ahead), if you
+don't tell me in a documented, maintained and clear way.
+
+Doesn't need to be a huge doc, especially for a start. But it needs to
+revolve around something logical for deployment and understandable for
+most, non technical people, so service-centered didn't seem absurd to
+me, and a graphic-based format neither, so that a sense of priority
+can be shared.
+