Adam Chlipala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Additionally, I'd like every admin to post a message here > summarizing what he plans to do, when he plans to do it, his > expectations from others, etc.. If you volunteered as an admin and > feel unclear about your role, let us know what you'd like to happen > in a perfect world!
I would like to evaluate the possibility of using Ubuntu instead of Debian on some of our servers. It is often more up-to-date than Debian, and has more frequent stable releases. Hopefully the advantages of this are obvious -- newer versions of software that we use, and a more stable upgrade path for said software when compared to our current Debian testing setup. I've used Ubuntu interchangeably with Debian at my LUG's servers, and it works quite well as a server OS. One part of that evaluation is to see how resistant people are to the suggested change of operating systems. I would not mind it too much if we went for Debian instead, but in that case I would almost certainly need to manually backport (that is, make custom Debian packages for) new versions of critical software (MoinMoin, Apache, etc.). I would also suggest if we use Debian, that we stick with only stable releases, given the trouble that the testing version gave us recently. That said, I would like to help maintain our MoinMoin installation and keep it up-to-date. I'm also willing to create custom Debian packages for any software that needs updates which aren't in our version of Debian. I'm open to other tasks as well, once we further define our responsibilities. > My ideal vision has the people who volunteered as admins organizing > among themselves, but it seems that (probably since we didn't > appoint a "head admin") no one has stepped forward to do any > organizing. For the time being, as president I'll try to fulfill > that role, and maybe we'll settle on a different approach going > forward. Sounds good for now. -- Michael Olson -- FSF Associate Member #652 -- http://www.mwolson.org/ Interests: Emacs Lisp, text markup, protocols -- Jabber: mwolson_at_hcoop.net /` |\ | | | Projects: Emacs, Muse, ERC, EMMS, Planner, ErBot, DVC |_] | \| |_| Reclaim your digital rights by eliminating DRM. See http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm for details.
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