> On 9/15/2017 7:43 AM, Merijn van den Kroonenberg wrote: >> It sounds a bit like you guys are hitting a wall? >> >> Could any help from the community get things going again? If so, what >> kind >> of skillset would be useful to tackle this thing? > > Yes, help is always welcome. More hands make light work. We setup a > SysAdmins group at the SA project to help manage the SA Infrastructure > just because of this issue and because I was the last holder of too much > arcania. > > Off the cuff, the skills needed are: > > - Ethical SysAdmin agreement since you have access to private emails, > etc. donated to the project. > > - Ubuntu SysAdmin Skills since that's the OS in question. > > - Redhat/Solaris/etc. skills helpful since old platform was on those > platforms. > > And the applicant has to then be approved by the SA PMC as they need > committer access. Right now, we have 2 that passed with a 3rd whose > vote is still pending but failed. Out of the 2, the system complexity > required more attention than he can give at this time. So it's been me > and Dave.
So one of the problems with solving this is because getting help requires a complicated enrollment. Maybe there are chunks of work which can be offloaded to the community without requiring full sysadmin enrollment? I can imagine lots of scripts are involved into running the rule generation. Maybe some need reviewing or something? (just throwning thing in the air here) > > Some others have offered to help like Eric Wolleson. I'll see if I can > unlogjam that PMC process. > > Regards, > > KAM > >
