I was reseraching a little bit and I found that this project is made in python with Django. Is it possible that we can take this project and do an implementation of our own?
The current implementation [1] is:
- Debian - Postgres - Django - Python stack
And the stats (infrastructure requirements) [2] are:
- Storage: - Application server: - 1 GB General Purpose v1 Rackspace cloud server - Number of user accounts: 6655 - Number of unique avatars: 6919 (355 MB) - Static image server: - 1 GB General Purpose v1 Rackspace cloud server - Size of avatars on disk: 1.8 GB - Traffic: - Application server: - Bandwidth: 328.31 MB - Hits: 43,823 - Static image server: - Bandwidth: 18.99 GB - Total hits: 11,191,373 - Redirects (to Gravatar): 9,605,127
There is a long blog post [3] about why it's shutting down, but the link that I found useful for possibly take this project is the development environment [4].
It's just a question, maybe is too big to take it for the whole world, but it looks like a great project for the Python SIG.
Br,
[1] https://blog.libravatar.org/posts/Libravatar.org_is_shutting_down_on_2018-09... [2] https://wiki.libravatar.org/shutdown-coordination [3] https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/looking-back-on-starting-libravatar [4] https://wiki.libravatar.org/development_environment
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Eduard Lucena x3mboy@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I was reseraching a little bit and I found that this project is made in python with Django. Is it possible that we can take this project and do an implementation of our own?
I don't know if there's a reason _not_ to take over the project. We use it heavily through our infrastructure, and it preserves a Free alternative to Gravatar.
The main problem, of course, is finding someone who wants to run it...
Lately, we've been shedding applications left and right (even useful ones that contributors relied on!), so I don't know if the fact we have this need would encourage someone to do it.
On 4 April 2018 at 22:16, Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Eduard Lucena x3mboy@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I was reseraching a little bit and I found that this project is made in python with Django. Is it possible that we can take this project and do an implementation of our own?
I don't know if there's a reason _not_ to take over the project. We use it heavily through our infrastructure, and it preserves a Free alternative to Gravatar.
The main problem, of course, is finding someone who wants to run it...
Lately, we've been shedding applications left and right (even useful ones that contributors relied on!), so I don't know if the fact we have this need would encourage someone to do it.
I don't think we have the resources to run this unless someone does an audit of the code and says "I can maintain this." Too many times people want something to stay around that they will pick it up before actually looking at it. They may even try to support it for 6 months or a year before realizing they have no idea why it was written that way and no time to figure it out. They might try to rewrite from scratch or they may hope that if people need it enough, they will show up and help them fix it. If there is one thing that 30 years in systems administration has taught me, that rarely works out.
There are many parts of the Fedora infrastructure where it was written with toolkits that their upstreams have long disavowed. It means that we are constantly adding duct-tape and bailing wire to make something that was written when RHEL-5 was young to keep going. And sometimes the code which is being used is just too far dead or giving us too many trouble tickets which are never going to get 'fixed'. At which point it gets purged.
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