Hi guys,

thanks for volunteering to help me out. I'm starting a new job this week and it'll be hectic over the next few months. I really like what common-lisp.net provides to the community so I figure instead of risking anything I wanted to reach out and get some help. I will continue to pay for the server from the donated money so you don't have to worry about that part.

To give you an idea, here's what's required on a week-to-week basis:

- monitor system-notifications@ mailinglist for warnings about diskspace or integrit failures (integrit is similar to tripwire)

- run /custom/bin/add-user.sh and /custom/bin/add-project.sh

- on occasion run /custom/bin/add-trac.sh

- run /custom/bin/update-integrit whenever you change something

That's mostly it. To figure out what the server is doing you can start by visiting /etc/crontab and see all processes that are ran every day. Mostly everything just works but there are a good bit of things actually running.

People will mail requests to admin@ for a new project. Our job is to make sure they give us all information we need (licence, project name, project members and any GPG keys) and then run the appropriate scripts. I usually go ahead and approve projects as long as the license is open-source although if there's another Common Lisp project out there with the exact name I will want to get in touch with that person first and see what's going on (see the admin list archives for cl-screen, for an example).

I'll send you guys an encrypted email with the root password shortly but I will not CC the list for that one. Please feel free to call me on 770-906-7641 if you have any questions and I can't be reached by email.

Since we will now be three admins we have introduced a race condition about approving projects. I suggest as a policy the person approving/creating a project replies immediately to that request saying something like "Ok, I'll take care of this" so the other admins know not to try anything. Opinions welcome, of course.

Lastly, it's not too late to back out if this is more than you think you signed up for, no hard feelings.

Thanks, Erik.