So, what is needed to make the transition complete:
1. Agreement from everyone that this is the way to go (hence this email).
2. Support from the ftpmasters to handle the switchover to the new server. We can copy a lot of keys, but SSH is still going to complain when we change the DNS.
3. DNS entry change to new IP address (owner of domain needs to do this).
4. A switchover moment to copy the database and statistics (my job).
5. The new server needs a valid reverse DNS so it can send/receive mail (being worked on).
6. Probably some more user accounts, currently only Andreas & I have access, and perhaps not even Andreas because port 443 is now the webserver.
Now, in theory this manifest could also be used on the (no longer available)
ddtp.debian.org. However, we are not yet ready for this. It caused problems on their database server last time and the fixes for that vanished when the server vanished. So we will have to go without any Debian infrastructure until the DB issues are fixed (probably when we go to DDTP2).
Now, barring objections and/or other problems I was thinking of aiming for a switchover in the second week of October.
(For those curious about performance: despite the new VM having less memory than churro, the VM manages to do the daily update in just under 3 hours, while churro takes 17).
Comments?