[epsi-coord] Fwd: hand over epsiplatform.eu

Mon Feb 11 18:56:55 GMT 2013

Thanks Daniel,
it's what I thought.
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>wrote:

> FYI
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Nils Toedtmann <nils.toedtmann at okfn.org>
> > Subject: Re: hand over epsiplatform.eu
> > Date: 11 February 2013 19:14:53 CET
> > To: Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
> > Cc: OKFN Sysadmin <sysadmin at okfn.org>, OKF Management <
> management at okfn.org>
> >
> > On 02/11/2013 05:23 PM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
> >> as you might have heard our contract for the project epsiplatform.euwill end on 1st March.
> >>
> >> This means that at some point we have to handover the epsipltform
> website to the new consortium lead. PAU Education
> http://www.paueducation.com/en
> >>
> >> We do not have jet been contacted by the new consortium, which is not
> necessary a good sign. So we might need to be prepared to keep it alive
> until the handover is complete on the other hand we can not effort having a
> lot of work with this.
> >>
> >> Nils: How much work do you think it necessary for this?
> >
> > Depends on what is understood to be a handover :-)
> >
> >
> > [A] The EPSI web platform
> >
> > OKF is only doing low-level sysadmin, the Drupal instance itself is
> > maintained by Ton Zijlstra and (to my knowledge) Peter and John
> > Rukavina. We could simply hand over either the Linode VMs, or our whole
> > Linode accout to the new consortium [1]. Then we inject their SSH keys
> > and should be done.
> >
> > The pure sysadmin work should be less than one hour. But the
> > communication necessary to coordinate the handover between the new
> > admins, Linode and us can easily take days, depending on how alert those
> > new guys are.
> >
> >
> > [B] The EPSI mail addresses
> >
> > We operate ~10 mail forwardings for @epsiplatform.eu on mail.okfn.org.
> > If they want to take over, we can send them the list of aliases and
> > change the MX record afterwards. <30min as long as all goes well.
> >
> >
> > [C] The EPSI domains
> >
> > We have 10 EPSI domains in our gandi account. If they want to transfer
> > them, we can send them the AUTH-IDs and zonefiles (1h). In theory that
> > is simple. In reality, such transfers (in three different TLDs) can get
> > arbitrarily painful and require a myriad of back-and-forth-mailing.
> >
> >
> > Does that answer your question?
> >
> > /nils
> >
> >
> > [1] Our Linode account only contains the two EPSI VMs. Turns out it is
> > an advantage that we never made the effort to migrate the EPSI VMs to
> > rackspace ;-)
> >
>
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