Infrastructure

Infrastructure#

This summarizes some of the external MESA infrastructure and who controls it.

GitHub#

We have the MESAHub GitHub organization. The members of the MTC/MAC all have owner-level privileges. MESAHub is classified as an educational organization and this currently grants us a 100% discount, meaning this costs $0/yr. Unsubsidized, it would cost about $1200/yr.

To classify MESAHub as an education account requires someone in the MESAHub organization to sign up for a education plan. This requires that the user has an University ID card with an expiry date (this is important). Steps to get access to this:

If MESAHub gets unsynced from this and is no longer on the education plan:

  • Goto Global campus

  • Find Upgrade your academic organizations

  • Click Upgrade to Github Team

  • Upgrade MESAHub

This is currently tied to Rob’s account.

mesastar.org#

This is a long-standing domain name used by MESA. The main website redirects to a landing page hosted on GitHub Pages

Domain Name#

Matteo controls the domain name (using domain.com) and handles renewing it, updating nameservers, etc.

DNS Servers#

The mesastar.org domain is configured to use Cloudflare nameservers and the DNS records are managed by Philip.

Mailing lists#

The mesa-users@lists.mesastar.org and mesa-developers@lists.mesastar.org lists are hosted by MailmanLists. The account is controlled by Matteo who pays the hosting fees through Flatiron. This costs about $100/year.

New account signups are handled by Earl, Eb, and Warrick.

Marketplace#

The MESA marketplace is controlled and hosted by Frank at ASU.

ReadTheDocs#

The Sphinx documentation is hosted by ReadTheDocs. Rich controls the account (and Earl, Joey, Meridith, and Philip have access to it). This is currently free for open source software.

Sourceforge#

The original home of MESA development was sourceforge. Most developers involved c. 2015 or earlier have admin privileges. This is a free service.

Website#

We still use the mesa.sourceforge.net website domain name, but only for a top-level redirect to docs.mesastar.org.

The source code for the old sourceforge site lives at MESAHub/mesa-website.

Slack#

Rich controls the Slack and pays for it (through grants at UW Madison). This costs around $130 per year (about $10/user/yr).

TestHub#

The MESA TestHub runs on Heroku and the account is controlled by Bill Wolf. It is funded by Frank and Bill W. The Heroku account costs around $600/yr, though its cost has been higher during the GitHub transition.

The testing log archive lives on a server at the Flatiron Institute, with Philip Mocz as a point of contact.

Jenkins#

The Flatiron Scientific Computing Core provides continuous integration testing for MESA via Jenkins. This was set up in 2021 by Dylan Simon (Flatiron) and Josiah. The configuration lives in the jenkins directory. Matteo and Philip serve as the point of contact at Flatiron. View the Jenkins test results

Zenodo#

We have multiple resources archived on Zenodo. This is a free service.

Community#

The MESA community on Zenodo is controlled by Philip.

Records#

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