Re: Who's looking after drupal?

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

Andy Shellam wrote:
> Hi Quim/Ross,
>
> I've been watching the infrastructure list for a little while, and while I
> wouldn't dare to touch most of the services you use, I use a CMS system very
> similar to Drupal and indeed I had tried Drupal out before I eventually
> settled on ModX.
>
> I have 5+ years in PHP programming (mainly php5 now) and Apache website
> admin experience since 1.3.20 (now familiar with 2.2.3.)
>
> While I don't have much time in the week, I do at weekends and am more than
> willing to lend a hand.
>
> I also have my own development box co-lo'd in London, and could devote a
> virtual host on this machine for dedicated development/testing if need be.
>
> Regards
>
> Andy.

Just FTR, with Danilo's approval, I helped Thomas copy everything for 
'www.guadec.org' from window/button to progress the other day and set it 
up on a virtualhost there, as it seems that window's version of PHP is 
not up to hosting recent versions of Drupal comfortably.

We have made no DNS changes yet. The currently live 'www.guadec.org' 
hosted on window is showing a blank page for me anyway, so as soon as 
Thomas is ready, I'll help him repoint the DNS.

Andy, thanks for offering to help. Please contact Thomas directly for 
more information.

Thanks,

--
Ross


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnome-infrastructure-bounces gnome org
> [mailto:gnome-infrastructure-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Quim Gil
> Sent: Thursday, 26 October, 2006 3:29 pm
> To: Ross Golder
> Cc: GNOME Infrastructure
> Subject: Re: Who's looking after drupal?
>
> I receive the Drupal security upgrades and I know at least guadec.org is
> outdated. However, I can't do the upgrades myself. I play with Drupal at
> home but I don't dare to do so in the GNOME servers.
>
> I asked John Hwang (tavon) to keep the guadec.org Drupal updated and he
> did an upgrade to 4.7.? like a month ago, but he is generally missing.
>
> It is probably better to have a CMS Brigade (if possible) to make sure
> the CMSs in the house (Drupal and the others) are upgraded when new
> maintenance releases are available. 
>
> I guess a problem is the typical lack of sysadmin time. Would it be
> possible/interesting to recruit new sysadmins granting them permissions
> only to do these upgrades and other CMS admin tasks? We could find
> some. 
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 15:19 +0100, Ross Golder wrote:
> > Just wondering, as there appear to be a few Drupal-related setup 
> > questions, and I feel like I've seen one too many Drupal-related 
> > security announcement recently, who is our main Drupal guy? Or is it 
> > just anyone with spare time, access and experience?
> >
> > Should setup/configuration requests be coming to one of our RT queues?
> >
> > Is anyone checking the security announcements and seeing whether any 
> > apply to us?
> >
> > Anyone else think we should we be writing up somewhere what has been 
> > checked, by who and when, perhaps at the bottom of the wiki page for 
> > each service?
> >
> > --
> > Ross
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