[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpegs future and resigning as leader

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 08:51:10AM +0100, tim nicholson wrote:
> On 31/07/15 17:19, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 05:37:12PM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > [...]
> >> So in order for the community to continue this, I'd say we probably need
> >> to have some help for:
> >>
> >> - guidelines on the merge strategies
> >> - step-by-step on the release process
> > 
> >> - some overview on the sysadmin state (like, what happens with the recent
> >>   server offers?)
> > 
> > i accepted the 2 offers which noone objected against (on the ML),
> > so FFmpeg should
> > get 2 boxes that things can be moved to and which should be dependable
> > it does need volunteers doing the work.
> > Maybe lou, beastd, tim nich, roberto and you would be willing to help
> > move things to them
> 
> I am up for assisting where I can, but August is going to be mainly
> holiday for me ;)
> 
> 
> > it was discussed to move things into virtual machines (qemu) for
> > higher security, isolation and ease of future moving.
> 

> If we go kvm etc, prebuilding a base image beforehand that can then be
> forked for postfix/Apache/trak etc would be useful.

yes


> 
> In fact there are some pre-built images already for some things, e.g
> 

> https://www.turnkeylinux.org/issue-tracking?page=1

has these been build by someone who knows about security ?
or would it require a security audit to ensure no auth stuff /session
keys / host keys / prng state / whatever is carried over from the
public image ?

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