> Our old host has proven resistant to doing an in-place OS upgrade, so

> we have determined the way forward is to provision a fresh host

> (funding for that is another open matter, for a Fundraising committee –

> volunteers welcome for that as well). 

I kind of hoped that the CL foundation has a bit of money left,

enough to get another (virtual) machine (eg. Hetzner) to run in parallel

for 1-2 months at most until the old one can be scratched?

> This (standing up the new host) should be a fun project with a lot of

> learning and networking opportunities.  Please write to me directly if

> interested. 

Yeah, I'm still willing to help, even if I'm a bit more time-starved

than a year ago.

In the meantime I've come to believe that it won't be easy to get a

full weekend from all volunteers at the same time -- and even if we did,

we'd just stomp on each others toes.

Can we define some common documentation area (perhaps using cryptpad.fr

or a similar independent service) where we can create a list of tasks,

edit/complete/document/check there in parallel, and start the migration

of services to the new VM in the background

I'm well aware that we need a bit of coordination for the final sync

run[1],

but quite a lot of configuration can be done independently.

[1] I hope that we can define stuff like /home/ as read-only

on the old machine after a first rsync run -- but for gitlab we'll need

some coordinated down-time, I guess.