>From: Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> >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. >+dev list for SpamAssassin.
>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. I would still like to help. I do like many things about Debian and this would be something to help me broaden my knowledge to Ubuntu. I have plenty of experience where I could definitely support Ubuntu. It may require me to do a little research as I go just to learn the best practices on Ubuntu as I try to stick with RedHat best practices on CentOS. There are many different ways to admin servers but I have learned sticking with the OS's standards goes a long way with future support and especially when there are multiple sysadmins on the same servers. >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 I will submit an ICLA shortly under my personal email address that will remain with me in the event I leave my current employer. >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? Absolutely. Very nice document. >Regards, >KAM >-- >Kevin A. McGrail >Asst. Treasurer, Apache Software Foundation >Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project
