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List:       spamassassin-users
Subject:    Re: getting help with SA sysadmin (was: SA not receiving fixed FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA update?)
From:       "Merijn van den Kroonenberg" <merijn () web2all ! nl>
Date:       2017-09-15 12:22:43
Message-ID: 4f70ba311a4a34c358a081f465e2b9b3.squirrel () wuppie ! web2all ! nl
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> 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
>
>


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