[H-SASIG] Erasing data on excalibur

[James Iseppi]

Hi Greg,

Looking back on the migration, I do now realise that I should have  
informed the HUMBUG sysadmin team of the work being done. For not  
doing so, and for not realising that I should have at the time, I  
apologise. I'm not trying to give excuses, but there was quite a bit  
happening at the time, and it's one of those things that I clearly  
didn't think through as part of the work I was doing. Also, again, not  
an excuse, but some of the sysadmin team was aware, as they were doing  
work related to moving services for LCA2011 as well.

Thanks
James

On 07/05/2010, at 7:30 AM, Greg Black wrote:

> On 2010-05-07, James Iseppi top-posted:
>
>> 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.
>
> Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the actual actions
> described above, one things that was definitely wrong was the
> failure to send the above information to the sysadmins at the
> time it was done.
>
> We have a group of administrators, none of whom know everything
> all the time, and we *must* follow basic collaborative processes
> which means we tell everybody when we make any significant
> changes.  It's really time for everybody to get this and to act
> on it.
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't know if that's true or not, but I do know that not
> everybody who needed to be told was told.  That's not good
> enough.
>
> Cheers, Greg
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