2 Apr
2021
2 Apr
'21
12:05 p.m.
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, G1FEF via 44Net wrote:
ARDC do have a self hosted GitLab server, the board
and the
TAC/GAC are using it for document sharing and so on. I have just
had a quick chat with Rosy and ARDC would be happy to setup an
“official” public GitLab instance if the membership would find
it useful?
Bit confused here:
https://gitlab.ampr.org/
already exists, so nothing needs creating. Just unticking the "keep
everything sup3r s3cr3t" checkbox.
So I guess the question is, what would folk use it
for?
Sure, for example:
1. I would like to collaboratively maintain the archive of historical
ARDC/AMPRNet material so that it's not lost again---things like the
1980s address plan; and the original/ammended MoUs between Brian
Kantor/ARDC and UCSD covering CAIDA's allowance to "collect, filter
and curate data destined for the AMPRNet(tm)" [until July 2023].
For new employees, technical advertisers, or trustees, (and Hams/users
in general) this would help in giving a much better overview and
single "go-to" location. Ditto for the board minutes, that were being
held back from release until the 2019 accounts had been filed.
2. We observe several support requests arranging at 44net@, mostly
then batted off-list. This could be better handled via an issue
tracker; and then tied to the resulting commits/updates to the
routeing DB resulting from those requests.
3. Nat Morris did a bunch of research and tool development recently to
find inconsistencies in the Whois/database/BGP advertisements---would
be great to get those tools in the same place; and to fix/document the
origin of the inconsistencies.
4. Unforunately ARDC is funding a *tonne* of stuff, all with an
open-access requirement: the simplest way for Rosy/the board to
enforce open-publication compliance is to require a mirror of the work
to be uploaded to the AMPRNet Gitlab instance.
@Paul - You are right, I did setup a public repo on
GitHub a while
back as a platform to get the Portal code re-developed, but
nothing ever came of it, so I deleted it.
Having Github.com/AMPRNet disappear is not a problem, /if/ the Portal
code and other tools were now visibly self-hosted on AMPR Gitlab...
However, checking just now, (I) can't see them.
..Chris: Are there any blockers (eg. next ~7 days) to making the
existing Gitlab instance and its existing hosted repos openly
available?
-Paul
(... ARDC is funding work on 44net/AMPRNet infrastructure, ... and
ARDC funding /usually/ comes with an unambigious requirement that the
fruits of that ARDC funding must be open-access/openly available).