I'd love to get more volunteers helping with support requests, but it's
not entirely trivial to get a new volunteer working on those issues
Some support requests don't require root/shell access, just the web
interface. New volunteers could start with those (plus submission
reviewing).
I'm not so sure focusing on a rewrite now,
I fully agree with that.
Anyway, how about something like this for an FSF/GNU blog post:
News from Savannah: Sylvain Beucler, who was instrumental in
modernizing and maintaining Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org) for the
last seven years, has decided to step down and look for new
challenges. Many, many, thanks to Sylvain and best wishes.
Michael Flickinger, a long-time Savannah administrator, has resumed
work on the Savannah back end. Of course, new volunteers would be
greatly appreciated. Some specific tasks:
- Help with reviewing new project submissions.
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly
- Work on bazaar/loggerhead integration at Savannah, e.g., right now we
cannot offer web browsing of source repositories.
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Bzr
- Help with handling support requests.
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=administration
For those who want to explore, the main Savannah documentation
(architecture, procedures, faq's) is at
http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance.
Wdyt?
