Oct 24, 2025#

Attendees:

Seema, Nabil Freij, Benjamin Leff

Observers:

Claudia Alvarado, Addo Davies Jr., Nicole Foster, Kari Hall

Apologies:

Irfan Alibay, Mridul Seth, Arliss Collins, Andy Terrel

Agenda#

  • Previous Action Items

    • Benchmarking with Astropy

  • Over utilization of Resources for wpengine.com

  • Welcome new member

  • numfocus/infrastructure#69

  • Other stuff?

Discussion#

  • Benchmarking with Astropy

    • Before committing to funding, projects would like a detailed cost estimate and a proof of concept demonstrating the application’s capabilities and expected performance (running an ASV benchmark on a project in an EC2 server).

    • Since projects will be financially responsible for their usage, we need to determine a fair and transparent monthly billing model that accounts for factors such as server usage and resource consumption.

    • Need to get a cost estimate for a simple EC2 instance.

      • EC2 cost calculator would get us about 85% of the way.

  • Budget questions around does the committee still have the money it asked for last year?

  • Over utilization of Resources for wpengine.com

    • Addo with WP Engine Support.

    • The exact day for when the bandwidth spike occurred was September 25th. The day I switch our plan from annually to monthly.

    • The following IPs are causing the high bandwidth:

      • 136.143.177.51 with nginx and php log types

      • 136.143.177.50 with nginx and php log types

      • 136.143.176.51 with nginx and php log types

      • 74.242.242.134 have not yet found any logs for this.

    • Addo went ahead and blocked these IPs.

  • The NumFOCUS website is moving to a new platform and backend system.

  • Arliss is the one to ask about signing software stuff for projects.

    • She has been tagged on the issue, hopefully we can take this forward with the projects.

  • Try to get our contact on the TSC to join, timezones are a big problem.

  • Make sure all committee members are signed up to vote.

Action items#

  • Upload meeting notes to repo Nabil Freij

  • Create Detailed Cost Estimate for Benchmarking Application Addo Davies Jr.

  • Create an issue template for ACCESS to help Alex manage on numfocus/infrastructure