I'm a long time lurker and unknown in the community but I'd also love to help out with this (time, technical expertise, money, whatever).
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Clint Moore <cl...@ivy.io> wrote: > 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. > > >