[H-SASIG] Erasing data on excalibur

[James Iseppi]

Hi Russell,

Since it is obviously me that you are talking about, as I conducted  
the migration of the Private component of the wiki to the LA VM, I  
will respond to this. I did not erase any of HUMBUG's pages, I moved  
pages related to the Private component of the current LCA organising  
committee (and only the private component) to my home directory on  
excalibur where they were to be kept in case they needed to be  
restored. I then copied these pages to the new wiki on the LCA VM  
provided by Linux Australia to form the base of the new LCA team wiki.  
At no point were any files deleted from the HUMBUG VM, though they  
were no longer a part of the HUMBUG wiki.

You and all people involved (which includes all members of the exec)  
in this component of the wiki were participants in the discussion  
where I said that I would move the LCA Private wiki to a new website.  
If you had objections to this, then I would have expected them to be  
raised at that point, not after the migration was completed. In case  
there was some misunderstanding, my intention has always been to move  
the content that was part of this to the new wiki, and I believe this  
was stated at multiple meetings of the LCA committee. This was mainly  
to avoid the issue of having two copies of the information being  
actively edited, which would of course lead to serious confusion. As  
there were no objections at the time this issue was raised, at  
multiple meetings of the LCA committee (which included all members of  
the HUMBUG Executive), I proceeded with the plan that I proposed.

Thanks
James

On 06/05/2010, at 7:55 PM, Russell Stuart wrote:

> Today I found out, quite by accident, that 40 mega bytes of humbug's
> wiki pages had been erased.  These were the pages connected with
> organising LCA 2011.  This was done without asking or notifying the
> Exec, or this list.
>
> I'll will be discussing this with the Exec as soon as I get a chance.
>
> In the mean time, please regard this as a standing order: do not erase
> data like that off Humbug's VM without first asking permission.  It is
> Humbug's VM, Humbug's property.  Humbug has the final say on what
> happens to it, and on it.
>
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