We should also be thinking in terms of making the website and mailing
list better integrated with a link to the site appearing on evry
message (trivial) and occasional summaries of traffic activity on the
site being sent to the mailing list.

I have a celeron box that could be the build box if one is needed.

On 6/7/05, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> 
> > Quoth Bob Miller, on Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:35:15 -0700:
> >
> > > EUGLUG's web and mail server is running Debian Woody.  It has run
> > > Debian Woody very nicely for a couple of years.  But now it needs to
> > > run Sarge.
> >
> > As our elected Webmaster I must ask:  why does it need to run Sarge?
> 
> Good question.
> 
> Woody will keep getting security updates for another 12 months, then
> after that it will be abandoned.  So we need to get Sarge in sometime
> in the next 12 months, unless we want to clean up a breakin.
> (I do not want to do that.  Ever.)
> 
> We're currently running a hand-installed mailman there, so we're
> hand-applying mailman updates.  (We've only done one in the last year,
> I think.)  It would be nice to use Debian's automatic update feature
> to apply future mailman updates.
> 
> That's why it NEEDS to run Sarge.  It WANTS to run Sarge because Sarge
> is newer, shinier and better. (-: Right now, Sarge even appears kind
> of new and shiny compared to other Linux distros.  In six months, it
> won't.
> 
> Are you expecting any issues migrating the web site to newer versions
> of Apache, PHP and MySQL?
> 
> Maybe the right thing to do is to build a new box w/ sarge and migrate
> our stuff onto the new box.  Maybe the right thing to do is to get all
> the intersted parties into a room and decide what the right thing to
> do is.
> 
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