Hi Nikodemus, all,

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus@random-state.net> wrote:

On 10 April 2013 11:04, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
> We use ssi as well. Please provide it. Starting php for every page view just
> to include the common page elements is overkill.

I think the default page template also used them... so many projects
have inherited those usages.

There's a problem here: a guy from irc (he's called asedeno) repaired nearly all services (suppored by fare) on the box apart from mail and mailing lists (at least, that's my understanding). Drew set up NGINX, but after some criticism of his approach of the migration/uprade he was doing, he left #common-lisp.net a few days ago and hasn't been seen around since then.

The problem this poses is that there's now a vacuum: there's nobody to call shots on which technology is being used and/or replaced (nobody wants to remove things Drew set up, since he sank so much time in it, nor does anybody know of his plans other than vagueries).

While some projects are returning to the box again, I'm personally very hesitant: there was no community process involved when Drew decided to replace the mailing list software and the mailer on the box as well as the web server technology. Who decides what's broken because they don't like the technology next time?

I'm thinking hard how to solve this, but I don't really see any obvious ways out. Do you?

Just so that there are roses as well: like to new frontpage -- even
though given it's placeholder nature! Come to think of it, Abhishek
Reddy's Features of Common Lisp might fit on the new page pretty
nicely (http://random-state.net/features-of-common-lisp.html)

True, but if the issue is the front page, then why not address that, instead of changing the mailer and the MTA?

Bye,

Erik.