The PSF Board has approved the appointment of Sean Reifschneider as
chair of the Infrastructure Committee for 2010-2011. Prior to this,
Sean has served as a committee member and handled system adminstration
tasks for the python.org servers. He works for tummy.com, a Linux
hosting and consulting company, and has years of experience with
system administration and hosting.
The Infrastructure Committee
The Infrastructure Committee is responsible for the technical details
of the Foundation's presence on the internet. They manage web server
space, email, DNS registrations, software application hosting for
tools such as bug trackers and PyPI, and all of the other tasks around
maintaining a professional presence on the net. If the PSF puts
something on the internet, the Infrastructure Committee is involved
with it in some way.
The other members of the committee are:
Thomas Wouters is the liaison between the PSF and XS4ALL, the Dutch
ISP that generously hosts many of the servers for python.org. Thomas
has been contributing time and energy since the servers were
originally moved from CNRI to XS4ALL, and still handles a lot of the
on-site hardware service when needed.
Martin v. Löwis handles a lot of the system administration tasks on
the PSF's servers. He manages DNS and development tools like
subversion, Buildbot, and the Roundup issue tracker instances for
Python-dev, Jython, and setuptools. Martin is also the primary
developer of the software behind the Python Package Index, PyPI.
Andrew Kuchling joined the committee during the migration from
SourceForge to Roundup several years ago. He also wrote the
templating system used for python.org content, and is still involved
with the content management.
Barry Warsaw is another long-time member of the committee. He has
been intimately involved in the email infrastructure, including the
development and configuration of the Mailman mailing list management
software. Today he acts primarily as an advisor to the other team
members.
Volunteers
Besides the formal committee members, there are two teams of
volunteers who do a lot of the day-to-day work for us.
The postmaster team, including Brad Knowles, Skip Montanaro, Ralf
Hildebrandt, Patrick Ben Koetter, and Martijn Pieters, run all of the
email services for python.org. That includes individual accounts and
aliases for contributors with @python.org addresses along with the
Mailman mailing lists and an NNTP-SMTP gateway for the newsgroups.
Their motto is "Low spam, high deliverability!"
The pydotorg-www group serves as webmaster for python.org. Their
responsibilities include typical webmaster duties, content management,
and wiki curation. For example, Michael Foord helps with moderation
of the python-dev mailing list as well as editing website content,
including managing the Planet Python feeds; Martin Thomas
adminsters the Job Board and news sections of the site; and Aahz
triages and responds to email sent to the webmaster alias and handles
some of the site updates directly.
Upcoming Initiatives
The Infrastructure Committee has several projects planned for this
year:
- Establishing a ticketing system for managing internal Foundation
business (not Python development). The Board and designated
committees will use the new system for managing tasks and project
plans. - Complete the move from Subversion to Mercurial for Python
development, including any changes necessary to host the new
repositories. - Seek an increase of our bandwidth to better handle recent spikes in
traffic to the python.org sites, especially from users downloading
new releases of the installation program for the interpreter.
Volunteering
To volunteer to help with the pydotorg-www team, see the
Maintenance and Administration page for instructions.
If you're interested in volunteering to help with the Infrastructure
Committee, contact Sean directly at jafo at tummy.com.
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