[H-GEN] Planet Humbug - time to retire or fix

[matheist76 at westnet.com.au]

Russell stated:
> I suspect that problem will reduce considerably when the sysadmin 
> list becomes open.

Russell the sysadmin list is currently private is it not. Then 
changing the list to be open would be against the motion proposed
at the AGM. This is:

" Motion: that we remove all private email lists and make them public.
Proposed: Stephen Thorne
Seconded: Greg Black
Result: Failed, 11 against, 9 for"

Sorry but you can't and please don't blame me because all I was after 
was a discussion on the topic at the AGM.

There is however a very simple way for people to make public what 
issues they have with the server and yet keep the sysadmin list private.
That would be for them to CC general when they send a post to sysadmin.

Matthew Franklin.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Stuart" <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au>
To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
Sent: Tuesday, 8 September, 2009 12:44:28 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Planet Humbug - time to retire or fix

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On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 12:20 +1000, Daniel Devine wrote:
> I would like to see the planet working in the interest of keeping the
> community active.

I don't want to put words in Greg's mouth, but I will anyway.  Greg's
attitude is that either planet should work, or it should be removed.
Not unreasonable, really.  Having planet up there and not working is
just an embarrassment.

Embarrassment or not, it has been like this for months.  I agree with
Greg - someone should fix it.  Remarkably just about anyone could fix
it.  The problem is no one has.

It isn't like it is difficult.  All you have to do is download a copy of
the VM image, figure out why it doesn't work, and post a patch to
general.  (If making a copy of the VM work sounds difficult email me.  I
not have put up an anything remotely resembling good documentation on
the procedure yet.)

You could post the patch to the sysadmin list of course, but there have
been some loud whinges in the past year that the sysadmin list sometimes
functions like a black hole so I would not recommend it.  I suspect that
problem will reduce considerably when the sysadmin list becomes open.

It also pisses me off that planet isn't working, as I used it.  I have
been putting it off fixing myself because I am as slack as the best of
you, but isn't fixed when I get back from my holiday next month, I will
probably fix it myself.

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