Hey new admins,
We've had a few folks mentioning that the GHC Trac registration
page is not working. If someone could investigate that, that would
be great.
There were also a few quirks with the migrated Trac installation.
The few I could name:
- Redirects stopped working (this should just one plugin being
turned on)
- http://ghc.haskell.org should redirect to the Trac rather
than give a useless homepage
Edward
Excerpts from Gershom B's message of Wed Jul 03 10:48:14 -0700 2013:
> This email is for both the haskell.org committee and the
> haskell-infrastructure list.
>
> After we realized our admin process was "stuck" by lack of hands, a
> few things happened. First, Ganesh jumped in to handle a few immediate
> requests. After that, a few of us on the committee (Edward Kmett,
> Jason, me) got accounts with admin permissions so current committee
> members would be able to step in as necessary. However, none of us, in
> doing so, was volunteering to do more regular admin work. I also got
> an account on Abbot, and sorted out one minor issue there.
>
> We now need to think a bit medium term. I sent out a survey to all
> individuals currently holding the sudo bit on lambda and lun. From
> that survey, I've received responses from less than half the
> recipients. I consider that a form of response in itself -- various
> people with accounts aren't involved enough to reply to the survey,
> even. Again, this is not a criticism of those people, who have done
> quite a bit for our infrastructure in the past-- its just where we
> stand at the moment. Of the responses I received, nobody was
> particularly enthusiastic about doing admin work on these boxes,
> although there were some offers to step in if really necessary.
>
> As such, it seems to make sense to bring in a new crop of admins, who
> have time and inclination to keep our systems running smoothly, handle
> the occasional request, etc. Abbot, where hackage runs from, is not a
> community machine but provided by Galois, and the intention for now, I
> think, is to keep a smaller crop of admins there.
>
> I have at the moment five solid volunteers, which is an abundance of riches.
>
> they are
>
> Austin Seipp
> Peter Simons
> Vo Minh Thu
> Merijn Verstraaten
> John Wiegley
>
> If people think this plan make sense, the next step is to get them set
> up with accounts, as well as accounts on the request tracker system
> and set some basic division of labor. I can coordinate this.
>
> We also have some other plans for migration of our services onto a new
> Hetzner box. Ian is coordinating that, so I think its up to him how we
> do or don't use these volunteer resources in relation to the
> migration.
>
> Relatedly, John Wiegley is particularly interested in helping with
> backups and recovery, which I think he also worries about a bit in his
> day job. Do we have a backup story for lambda/lun? Is this something
> that comes with Hetzner's service? Backups and security (about which
> Peter knows quite a bit) are probably the two areas we should pay
> particular attention to, along with basic kicking services when they
> go down, etc.
>
> Thoughts? Disagreements? Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Gershom
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