burns babbled on about: > this. I understand the problem with DNS, but this goes way beyond all that > and is starting to feel like a "palace coup d'etat." I hope not, and I'm > sure that's not Doug's intention, but that's the uneasy feeling I get.
Definately not my intention. Mike incorporated linux.nf as a legal entitiy on Norfolk. This still remains. There are many benefits to this that can be discussed off-list. All the editors are a prt of this legal entity. However, the SxS has become a rather large "force" in the community lately. As such, it needs to be up and available and it needs to continue to expand. We all agree on this. For several months Mike has not had direct interaction with the admins for the .nf domain. This made it very difficult to find out what was going on when DNS crashed, or when norfolk itself became unrouteable. It also made it a slow and painful process to get anything new implemented. Basically, we would discuss an idea, I'd pass to mike, he'd pass to the .nf admins, they'd get to it whenever... this is simply unnacceptable. The most recent DNS outage (still ongoing AFAIK) was simply the last straw. Our apparent failure to keep our site running was beginning to reflect negatively on the site and its community. As such, I took the initiative and registered linux-sxs.org This domain is something that I have direct web-access to for its administration. DNS is being handled by Bill Campbell (who's on this list and doing a DAMN FINE job of it). Take a bow Bill. The current situation is *much* better than the old. A new idea gets kicked around by the editors, I make the necessary changes on the server, email Bill, and viola. 24 hours later it's good to go. linux.nf is NOT going away. It will simply become a pointer to linux-sxs.org. As Mike stated on this list earlier, this is a Good Thing for future growth. the Norfolk mystique is very much a part of this community and will be preserved as much as possible. Our esteemed Dr Tux will be back soon (workloads permiting) and things will settle down from here on out. there is no cause for concern, no need for conspiracy theories. Mike and the other editors are cool with all this. granted, it happened rather quickly, but I didn't feel like waiting over a week for the prior DNS issue to resolve itself so could discuss things in a committe. I did what I delt was best for the long-term growth and survival of the community. I can tell you already that our exposure on the net has been positively influenced by the new .org domain. As well, our new jobs site has caused quite a splash in several unusual places (the CLUE list comes to mind immediately, as does a job list on yahoo groups). All is well. Nobody is taking over anything. We're just finally getting our assets under *our* control. This in turn is letting us move ahead with things that have been a long time waiting... -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org panic("floppy: Port bolixed."); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/include/asm-sparc/floppy.h _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
