On 4/20/2017 9:49 AM, David Jones wrote:
I am a RedHat/CentOS person -- former RHCE in RHEL 6 and current RHCSA in RHEL 7. If you want to use CentOS 7, I can help.
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David, short of me running own boxes outside of the foundation, Infrastructure confirmed that it's Ubuntu or the highway. But we do always need help and fresh blood and you might be helpful even on Ubuntu because the work is pretty heavy on cross-disciplinary work from DNS to HTML to SSH.
You, Eric and Brian all mentioned helping so this email is specifically for you three. With any project, there is always a need for talent beyond programmers like testers, people to answer users, docs, sysadmins, etc.
Would you like to step up to helping formally with sysadmin work on the boxes? I can give a lot of guidance towards how I would do things and there are some specific goals that I think are achievable. Specifically, we need to get the sa-vm1 Ubuntu box online replacing what two older boxes used to do. I have specifics and I migrated one of those boxes about 2 years ago from Solaris to Centos and I have pretty copious notes.
If you would like to step up and be a committer on the project, Do any of you have an ICLA on file? Would you file one? https://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html
Beyond that, there is private data on these servers so there is some level of ethics you need that goes beyond what the ASF typically covers for contributors. I use this code of ethics for my work as a sysadmin: https://www.pccc.com/base.cgim?template=sage_code_of_ethics Could you follow that?
Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Asst. Treasurer, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project
