On Jul 3, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Gershom B <[email protected]> wrote: > This email is for both the haskell.org committee and the > haskell-infrastructure list. > > After we realized our admin process was "stuck" by lack of hands, a > few things happened. First, Ganesh jumped in to handle a few immediate > requests. After that, a few of us on the committee (Edward Kmett, > Jason, me) got accounts with admin permissions so current committee > members would be able to step in as necessary. However, none of us, in > doing so, was volunteering to do more regular admin work. I also got > an account on Abbot, and sorted out one minor issue there.
Thank you! The way you've taken initiative with this is really refreshing. > > As such, it seems to make sense to bring in a new crop of admins, who > have time and inclination to keep our systems running smoothly, handle > the occasional request, etc. Abbot, where hackage runs from, is not a > community machine but provided by Galois, and the intention for now, I > think, is to keep a smaller crop of admins there. > > I have at the moment five solid volunteers, which is an abundance of riches. I know some of the folks on your list but not all of them, but I trust your judgement here. > > they are > > Austin Seipp > Peter Simons > Vo Minh Thu > Merijn Verstraaten > John Wiegley > > If people think this plan make sense, the next step is to get them set > up with accounts, as well as accounts on the request tracker system > and set some basic division of labor. I can coordinate this. +1 > > We also have some other plans for migration of our services onto a new > Hetzner box. Ian is coordinating that, so I think its up to him how we > do or don't use these volunteer resources in relation to the > migration. Ian is not in the above list so it would be great if he did it with someone from the list above to help share the knowledge of how it fits together. I think the ideal case would be him documenting what needs to be done and delegating. I realize real-world constraints mean that may not be possible. > > Relatedly, John Wiegley is particularly interested in helping with > backups and recovery, which I think he also worries about a bit in his > day job. Do we have a backup story for lambda/lun? Is this something > that comes with Hetzner's service? Backups and security (about which > Peter knows quite a bit) are probably the two areas we should pay > particular attention to, along with basic kicking services when they > go down, etc. I would add to that, better documentation. I think that's something we ran into here is that we need documentation. For one it makes it easier for folks to step down and others to spin up where they left off. Thanks! Jason
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