Drew C <m...@drewc.ca> writes: > Hey, > > Thank you for informing me on what is being said behind my back, that helps > me to decide on my future quite a bit :)
I'm going to assume that this isn't directed at me, but if I'm wrong, please understand that, while that wasn't the intent, I apoligise. > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Luís Oliveira <luis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, in my opinion that is completely different from actually happened, > and given that I am now the only admin of a site that I do not use, and did > not 'decide' to 'migrate' but rather 'did not have the $foo it would take > to keep the box up another month', I am wondering what politricksian you > were speaking with that told you? > > Here is the situation : > > 1) I have never been an administrater of CL-NET till recently, just a > 'donation' of the box itself from 2007 or so until the near future. > 2) I was told that the business who runs the dedicated service are shutting > down, and the box will go with it. > 3) I asked for help, and others who knew apache. exim and mailman to please > help me because I do not know those things. > 4) I did not receive any help, and the box was going to be shutdown unless > I paid a lot to keep it up an extra month. > 5) I paid a lot, and asked for help again while I had to move things. > 6) I tried to moved things over gradually, but the people who do use it for > releases of their software and needed it up, so I paid twice as much to > leave it up for an extra week or so. > 7) Now I hear complaints and political talk, yet nobody volunteers to take > over, and apparently there is politricks involved. > 8) I still ask for help, and will here again : "I would like some help > because I do not use this site and those who do use it may know a bit more > about that they need" > > > The issue at hand is therefore political rather than technical. > > Can you please inform me of the politricks? The reason that I had to move > from mailman to mlmmj is because I know mlmmj technically, and I know > postmodern and postgresql more then I know exim + whatever. So, having been > the one that 'started the issue' for technical reasons,. would like to know > the politicians who are in competition with me for common-lisp.net, and if > they would like to take over? > > I wish that political things were not as important to Common Lispers as > simply having things running, but if folks do not want what I did my best > to keep up, then please contact me about taking over. If you do not want to > take over but simply want something that is not there yet, clo-devel is a > good place to ask I guess. That's quite a different situation. I would like to volunteer to maintain and pay for keeping common-lisp.net around into the forseeable future, though no one in the community knows me which might or might not be an issue. If I may be so bold as to ask for access to the backups or tarball of the machine, I could bring up a box with everything working and submit it for review to whomever, and if it's acceptable we could simply point common-lisp.net to it.