All of this sounds good to me. Gershom, thanks for working on this! -Brent
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 01:48:14PM -0400, Gershom B 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. > > We now need to think a bit medium term. I sent out a survey to all > individuals currently holding the sudo bit on lambda and lun. From > that survey, I've received responses from less than half the > recipients. I consider that a form of response in itself -- various > people with accounts aren't involved enough to reply to the survey, > even. Again, this is not a criticism of those people, who have done > quite a bit for our infrastructure in the past-- its just where we > stand at the moment. Of the responses I received, nobody was > particularly enthusiastic about doing admin work on these boxes, > although there were some offers to step in if really necessary. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Thoughts? Disagreements? Ideas? > > Thanks, > Gershom _______________________________________________ haskell-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://community.galois.com/mailman/listinfo/haskell-infrastructure
