Hi James, Thanks for volunteering! I really appreciate it.
We've got several volunteers, so hopefully it won't be too much work for anyone, and I'll make sure not to ask you to do anything too soon. I've been planning to coordinate using the Racket Discord. Have you used that? Thanks again, Sam On Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 7:19 PM James Platt <ja...@plattjt.com> wrote: > Hi Sam, > > I've got some pretty good general sysadmin skills. I would have to get up > to speed with some of the specific technologies but that should not be a > problem. I'm pretty much booked up to the end of the year, with lots to > do but, come January, I should be in much better shape. > > James > > On Dec 7, 2021, at 3:30 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > > Currently, the implementation of https://pkgs.racket-lang.org as well > > as https://pkg-build.racket-lang.org (see Notes) is primarily > > maintained by Matthew Flatt, although much of it was originally > > written by Jay McCarthy and Tony Garnock-Jones (for pkgs in > > particular). Matthew of course wears a lot of hats and maintains lots > > of things, and he's tired of this job. > > > > As a result, I'm going to take over the sysadmin role, but I'm looking > > for additional people who can help out as well -- this is a key part > > of Racket infrastructure and one person is probably not enough. Anyone > > with experience with system admin, web servers, the Racket web server, > > AWS, Docker, etc would be great, or but expertise is _not_ required, > > just a willingness to help out. > > > > Of course, there are many ways to improve the system as well, and > > helping to maintain it is a great way to get started on that. > > > > If you're willing to volunteer some time to help with this, let me > > know, either here or by messaging me (@samth) on Discord or Slack. > > > > Sam > > > > ### Notes: > > > > The implementation of pkgs.racket-lang.org is a front-end here: > > https://github.com/racket/racket-pkg-website and a backend here: > > https://github.com/racket/pkg-index/. They both run on the same EC2 > > instance, and store almost all of the state (including the index of > > packages) in S3. > > > > The implementation of pkg-build.racket-lang.org is a separate > > continously-running EC2 instance running the `pkg-build` package, > > implemented here: https://github.com/racket/pkg-build > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAK%3DHD%2Ba5zFaHMGijuhCZ_jb7g1aEmukMwyXfxHYiErEWU%2B5aFQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAK%3DHD%2Bbt34WyK61zk6VtLoz__VJjAAZsL0Ax5Hg69TzfgPJS0A%40mail.gmail.com.
