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1.  Project Description

The Gentoo Infrastructure project is comprised of several smaller projects that, as a whole, provide the resources, services and technology necessary to support the Gentoo Linux project. The project is responsible for the security, availability and integrity of the data stored on the Gentoo Linux servers.

The Gentoo Infrastructure team is made up of a group of people with a variety of backgrounds, from traditional system and network administration, to deep security expertise. These members work together to ensure all necessary resources are available to keep the Gentoo Linux project running and available.

2.  Developers

Developer Nickname Role
Robin H. Johnson robbat2 Lead ( Operations Manager -- full time )
Alec Warner antarus Full time ( Master of Puppets )
Jeremy Olexa darkside Full time ( Mirrors, Web applications )
Christian Ruppert idl0r Full time ( Bugzilla, General System Administration )
Theo Chatzimichos tampakrap Full time ( Webapps, Mirrors, General System Administration )
Alex Legler a3li Part time ( General System Administration )
Raúl Porcel armin76 Part time ( Release Engineering Liaison )
Stefan Behte craig Part time ( General System Administration )
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvicetto Part time ( Release Engineering Liaison )
Mike Doty kingtaco Part time ( General System Administration )

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

3.  Subprojects

The infrastructure project has the following subprojects:

Project Lead Description
Gentoo Mirrors Charged with ensuring the stability and availability of our mirroring system, including Portage and Source mirrors. For more information see the mirrors page.
Gentoo Web Responsible for updating and maintaining the web site.
Gentoo Mail In charge of mail-related issues, including mailing lists.
Gentoo CVS In charge of cvs-related issues.
Infrastructure Security This group spans all other groups and is responsible for ensuring the overall security of all servers and other devices used by the Gentoo Linux project. This project provides more architectural and consulting services, relying on the Gentoo Sysadmins project for the actual implementation.
Gentoo Sysadmins Another project that spans all other groups, this team ensures all servers are properly maintained. Included in this are the application of new security patches, scheduling of downtime for package upgrades and other system administration duties. Some members of this team have specialized skills, such as database administration or CVS administration. This project works closely with the Infrastructure Security project.
Tenshi Responsible for maintaining Tenshi, a custom log monitoring tool developed for Gentoo infrastructure servers.

4.  Resources

Resources offered by the infrastructure project are:

5.  I Want to Participate

To participate in the Gentoo Infrastructure project, please contact one of the project leads.



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Page updated 2012/02/10

Summary: The infrastructure project describes the infrastructure that Gentoo uses, how the infrastructure is administrated, who is in charge of what infrastructure and more infrastructure-related items.

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