Foresight Infrastructure

This is the homepage for the Foresight Infrastructure team.

Overview 

The Foresight Infrastructure team maintains and manages the Foresight Infrastructure, including:

• Foresight homepage
  • foresightlinux.org
  • foresightlinux.com
• JIRA (Foresight's issue tracker for bugs, tasks and more)
• Confluence (Foresight's wiki)
• Planet (User and Developer blog aggregation)
• Forums
• Blogs
• Mercurial repository
• Mailing Lists

Team Members

The Foresight Infrastructure team can be contacted by emailing infra@foresightlinux.org. 

Infrastructure Details

Foresightlinux.org

Foresightlinux.org (and foresightlinux.com) are currently hosted by António Meireles, with a dedicated domU that hosts almost all of the infrastructure as a dom0 on the server.

As of June 2009, foresightlinux.org runs in a WordPress CMS.  Foresight was deployed on a Django CMS until March of 2008, but was moved to static html pages to stability problems. During the summer of 2008, several CMS systems were evaluated but progress stalled. The evaluations were rebooted during April and May of 2009, and in June of 2009, the content from the static html pages were moved to the new WordPress setup.

Foresightlinux.org is managed through WordPress at http://foresightlinux.org/wp-admin

JIRA and Confluence

JIRA, is a bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management application used by Foresight.  JIRA, created by Atlassian, while propietary software, provides free and open source projects with a free license.  A major benefit of JIRA is its integration with Confluence, a wiki also created by Atlassian.

Foresight's JIRA issue tracker, FITS, and Confluence wiki are managed on a dom0 hosted on the Foresight server.

To create account, create an accont in FITS, which can also be used to log in to the Confluence wiki.

Foresight's JIRA contains six projects:

• Foresight Linux GNOME Edition
• Foresight Linux KDE Edition
• Foresight Linux XFCE Edition
• GNOME Live Media
• Foresight Infrastructure
• Boots, a Fedora Remix

FITS is responsible for managing all bug reports, feature requests, tasks and enhancement requests. As of December 2007, FITS is undergoing maintenance to add better workflow management.

Planet

The Foresight Planet, a blog aggregator of Foresight users and developers is available at http://planet.foresightlinux.org.   Foresight's planet is based on Planet Venus and is deployed using an Xen appliance on ken/elliot/gxti/smithj's dom0.  Foresight's planet project is http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/planetoforesight/.

Forums

Foresight's forums were deployed in spring of 2008 based on a SMF appliance.  Foresight SMF appliance project is located at http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight-infra/.

Blogs

There is a proposal to create a Wordpress-MU appliance for deployment.  The primary purpose would be for a Foresight specific blog, promoting Foresight marketing, news, press releases, release announcements and possible the newsletter. 

A secondary use is as a perk for Foresight developers who want their blog hosted.  Using a WP-MU appliance would allow this. The WP-MU appliance on rBuilder has potential, but needs to be updated to the next release.

Mercurial Repository

Foresight has a Mercurial repository available for Foresight specific projects at  http://hg.foresightlinux.org/hg.  This includes projects such as:

• Foresight User Guide
• Foresight LUG and conference presentations
• Security announces
• Foresight's GTK Theme
• Foresight's Anaconda installer

Developers are given access to the Mercurial server.  See Becoming a Developer for more information.

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists are currently hosted by rPath.  It is possible that Foresight may need to host their own mailing lists at a future date.  Google Groups are currently being explored as a viable alternative.