As part of the "community transition" discussion on this list, the question of a "contingency plan" for openSUSE infrastructure came up. I'd like us to go one step back and ask what kind of infrastructure do we want to have in the long run and what kind of policies do we want to have? I know that I have seen a couple of discussions on infrastructure on mailing lists and had some with people face to face but we lack some kind of documented "vision" for our infrastructure. I'm asking this since the openSUSE infrastructure has grown over time and just making a "contingency plan" misses the chance, IMO we should define what kind of infrastructure the project needs and then work on that plan. So, one part of those principles could be these two: * do not relay completely on Novell data centers * have common authentification for all systems This could then lead to the following details: * Do not use ichain for authentification * setup a central user database, e.g. using ldap * Authentificate using oauth * Authentification with openID * Setup an openID provider and then we could ask already today for some folks to start working on a few of these items since they help the openSUSE infrastructure - independend of sponsorship. What do you think? What are your principles for our infrastructure? Any volunteer to collect the responses and write up a good proposal? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org