Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] admin help

[Sylvain Beucler]

Savannah admins, I need your point! See below.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 06:28:04PM +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> Sorry I got called away and I'm about to go away again for the weekend.
> 
> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I don't remember seeing your previous mail, but help is still welcome.
> 
> It was some time ago.  No matter.
> 
> > We would like to have as much help as possible for the project
> > submissions reviews, because this is what the most time-consuming
> > task today.
> 
> OK, I can doubtless do some of that.  I can also do sysadmin jobs if
> that's any use.  [Do you have a monitoring system in place for the
> services?  I have some experience of that if it's of any interest.]

That's of interest :)

> > Our other tasks are mostly described at
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/TasksList
> 
> I'll check it after the weekend.
> 
> > Do you already have some wishes about how you would like to help?
> 
> Not particularly, although I'd be quite interested in keeping my hand
> in at sysadmin while I'm not doing it professionally.
> 
> > We would also be much interested in some story-telling about the time
> > when some people had root on the GNU systems :)
> 
> I don't think there's much to tell.  People were generally trusted in
> those days if they were reasonably well-known, and if something needed
> doing, you tended to be given the means of doing it yourself.  These
> days even rms seems to worry somewhat about security (rightly so).

>From what you said, we can expect some punctual contribution from you.

Currently, we trust Savannah contributors by involving them in the
long term with increasing privileges grants, which may or may not be a
good idea.

Since it probably won't fit with your situation, let's discuss with
the other admins about giving you more directly some shell access. For
example, we could give you normal user access for you to study the
installation (in addition to reading the docs about it), then discuss
what we could do about that, and possibly give you the means to do it.

Then everything about what you do and intend to do will be a matter of
communication :)

-- 
Sylvain