Hoi,
At the language committee we have several people with knowledge about DNS.
We would also positively love the ability to create new projects.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 18 March 2011 21:11, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Compared to the other things roots have to do, adding a few entries to
> > langlist and running the update script is trivial, so I think
> > developing tools to open this up to more users would be a misuse of
> > time. The difficult things with wiki creation are:
> >
> > * Finding the bug reports for wiki creations, or remembering to look
> > at a list at appropriate intervals.
> > * Working out which wiki creation requests are properly approved by
> > whatever process it is that we have at the moment.
> > * Interpreting the vague requests by the incubator users for special
> > configuration of the new wiki.
> >
> > If there is a non-root user who is prepared to do these things, an IRC
> > private message to a root user should be enough to get the DNS changes
> > done in a matter of seconds.
> >
>
> Given that the pushing out of DNS updates is already scripted up, I worry
> about keeping the need to go grab someone and get them to add a line to a
> file and run the command.
>
> No it isn't much work in literal terms, but there's a surprisingly big gulf
> between "thing you can do yourself in 2 minutes" and "thing you can mostly
> do yourself in 2 minutes, but you'll have to track down someone else to do
> 30 more seconds for you, make sure they understand what you're asking for,
> see if they agree, and hope they have the time and inclination to actually
> do it".
>
> What I'd like to see is that the people who are actually approving new wiki
> creations should be able to actually make a wiki creation happen
> immediately. Most of the configuration settings *should* be things that can
> be set at creation time or afterwards, through a web interface, by those
> same people or stewards, bypassing the need to bottleneck
> decision->implementation through system administrators.
>
> Forcing all this stuff to be done by a small number of server admins and
> developers hand-editing configuration files in a terminal isn't a good use
> of peoples' time. The actual config editing is awkward and error-prone, and
> the need to communicate, verify, and authenticate requests slows things
> down
> and keeps power out of peoples' own hands.
>
> -- brion
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