Gershom wrote: > I wanted to pose some choices for the future of community.haskell.org
As someone who did a lot of the support work on c.h.o in the past, I can say that this is good view of the situation and a good approach towards moving forward. One advantage of offering services via c.h.o is that it allows anyone active in the community to use the haskell.org domain name for their project. I think that contributes both to the feeling of community, and to the feeling of importance to those who contribute. Continuing web hosting allows that to continue, which is nice if we can manage that. Are you sure that none of the mailman mailing lists on c.h.o are active anymore? Is there a good alternative? The haskell.org domain is actually quite valuable for that as well. On the other hand, supporting any public facing service involves a lot more effort nowadays than it used to due to various security issues. That trend will likely continue. So whatever we decide to continue to provide, we need to be realistic about the human resources we will need in the long term to sustain it. Another point: if we provide any service at all, we also need to provide a way for people to contact us for technical support. The RT ticket system on c.h.o has become nearly unusable due to incessant spamming. There are a number of alternatives: we could just use Haskell Cafe, but that would require making sure that there is always someone who can respond monitoring the list. The RT system is also used as part of the mechanism to request, vet, and grant new accounts. We may want to revamp that system. Thanks, Yitz _______________________________________________ haskell-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://community.galois.com/mailman/listinfo/haskell-infrastructure
