[IMC-Docs] Offering to help with imc-docs

[intrigeri]

hi all,

garcondumonde wrote (29 Apr 2007 20:40:18 GMT) :
> hello mike, and others,
>
> mike wrote:
>> I volunteered myself at the most recent bristol imc meeting to get
>> involved with the docs project.
>
> cool! welcome :-) please read on...

yeah :) don't hesitate to join #twiki too.

>> The main reason as far as bimc is concerned is to recover the bristol
>> pages and get some sort of independent backup in place.  That might
>> involve some sort of proposal to imc-docs in the future as to how
>> smaller imc's can get access to backup thsir own files (using twiki
>> web's?), or perhaps a mirror system,  or simply helping out with
>> imc-docs itself.
>
> well, i think that the best thing is to provide some backup somewhere
> that is accessible by people - at least there would be a read-only copy
> of the site if it was unavailable for whatever reason. nb. i did start
> to set this up last year using a server in brasil, but there is no
> public access to this setup (it also contains privileged
> files/information), and i'm not sure how much other work has been done
> on this either.

Great idea.

>> In addition, I'd like to offer my own tech skills to this group -
>> I've been maintaining linux web servers for several years now and
>> I've set up and maintained several twiki sites.  If any help is
>> needed, I would be happy to help - sounds like the server is back so
>> if someone provided me a ssh account and access to the backup files I
>> could look at the setup.
>
> that would be fantastic! we do really need help as both intrigeri and i
> are moving away from this project due to various reasons. however, we're
> both still around a bit to help pass on the knowledge we have.

awesome. please send me a ssh public key and I'll play with adduser.
I'll forward you an email Alster wrote some time ago as an
introduction for newcomers.

>> I tried to sign up on the imc-docs-tech list recently using my
>> googlemail address - mainly to see if there's anything in the
>> archives about how much disk space and bandwidth the docs site
>> needs, i.e. what resources would be needed for a mirror.
>> I'll reapply with this address, but if anyone here knows the answer
>> to that maybee you could fill me in.
>
> well, i think it's not much ;-)
>
> there are some munin graphs - i think that they are at
> https://munin.tachanka.org under kompost (the main server) and humus
> (the actual docs.indy vserver) but i'm not sure if they're working or
> not, or if the info is elsewhere. in any case, i'm pretty sure that all
> the answers are "low"

getting the munin stuff back up seems to be one of the first things
that need to be fixed after this migration, indeed.

> as to joining the list - i think that someone needs to authorise the
> subscription, but i don't know the password (anymore??) so maybe
> alster is the best person to advise about that.

I'm also admin'ing imc-docs-tech. Mike, would you mind trying to
subscribe with a non-googlemail address hosted on a tls-enabled mail
server ? imc-docs-tech is the place where private information transits
and we need to be careful on how it does.

Ciao,
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