On Sep 6, 2011, at 4:46 PM, drew wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 19:05 -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: >> On 9/6/2011 18:03, drew wrote: >>> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 17:30 -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: >>>> On 9/6/2011 13:43, Matt Richards wrote: >>>>> Well, I thought Terry has resigned from the project according to another >>>>> thread, leaving the wiki migration at a bit of a stand still. Figured I >>>>> could step in and pick up where he left off on this. Am I able to, as a >>>>> non-contributor reach out to Apache Infra on this (from what I read it >>>>> seems >>>>> the infra ML are for existing contributors only)? Not sure who all is >>>>> involved at this point. >>>> >>>> As Pedro commented, you don't need a newbie to help with the conversion. >>>> But in the long run, I volunteer to learn whatever is needed to support >>>> the MW system. All I have to offer is that I am a sysop on the live >>>> wiki, >>> >>> You have root level access to the current box in Hamburg? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> //drew >>> >> Sorry, no. > > Drat > >> AFAIK, only Clayton had that (and possibly other Bureaucrats; >> I see Terry's name on that list, and Andrew Rist, as well.) > > Yes Terry had that level of access and I assume Andrew does (note the > word assume there) > > I needed to pass this along also - I received a call from Terry earlier > today and he walked me through the current status on his migration work, > open issues and concerns (technical concerns only).
I am glad that this occurred. Most all of us appreciate the handoff. > > One good thing is that is appears my email to the Network admins in > Hamburg 2 years ago to turn off my access to the server running the > forums there was never acted upon - so as soon as I dig out my keys for > that service from a backup I'll be giving that a try - hopefully that is > the case. > > On the wiki there is a sizable amount of work left to do on the staging > server including email integration for both VMs (wiki/forum) for one, > and issues from the upgrade to the latest version of MW causing problems > with many of the 44 mods the service was using...oh fun. > H > e gave me some clues on where the documentation he created for the Infra > guys is in SVN and he is working on a more detailed hand off document > which will be emailed to us - but that is not likely till this weekend > given some already scheduled commitments has tomorrow and the next day. I saw a commit of a doc move over in infrastructure. Last he was doing had to do with email integration he had found the documents with Gavin's help. > I think that document is coming to me - if so, as soon as I get it I'll > forward that directly here. > > I see Pedro has already asked on the Infra mailing list to try that MW > to Confluence conversion script...haven't seen a response on that > request yet. We may want to try a limited test first, but I am not keen on tossing out Terry's efforts. It is my hope that we will have more volunteers with LAMP experience to help sysadmin these servers. Regards, Dave > >> >> I suspect that root access is a separate thing from wiki group rights. > > I believe so, yes. > > OK - as soon as I know more, everyone will... > > //drew >
