Looking for new maintainer(s) for debbugs.gnu.org

From: Glenn Morris Subject: Looking for new maintainer(s) for debbugs.gnu.org Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:31:51 -0400 User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Hi, I'm looking for someone(s) to take over the maintenance of debbugs.gnu.org. I'm aware that the help-debbugs mailing list doesn't have a big readership, so please feel free to forward this advert elsewhere. debbugs.gnu.org is a virtual machine hosted by address@hidden It currently runs Debian 8, having been upgraded in-place through a few Debian stable versions. It should be updated to Debian 9. Upgrades between stable releases have been mostly straightforward in the past. The FSF sysadmins wanted to provide a new VM to host the Debian 9 version. This perhaps offers the opportunity to install a new system from scratch in a more organized way. The current system has evolved in-place over the years, with eg no true VCS for configuration files, local tweaks, etc. Changes are made to the live system, with no separate test instance. The job requires experience of GNU/Linux (ideally Debian-based) system administration. The system runs a web-server (apache) and handles mail (exim, spamassassin, mailman). If you want to hack on the actual debbugs software, it's written in Perl. You should probably also sign up as admin/moderator of the debbugs-submit mailman list, which is used to filter all incoming mail. Our debbugs installation has quite a few small modifications from (an old version of) upstream debbugs. Ideally, our installation would be rebased on the current upstream. See https://debbugs.gnu.org/26380 for some work on this. The actual day-to-day workload involved in just keeping the system going is extremely small (close to zero). There would be some work up front in the Debian 9 upgrade, and in putting a better organizational system for local changes in place. Rebasing debbugs would be more work, but again a one-off. I expect to be available to answer any questions you might have during the transition. If you want more details, feel free to respond on help-debbugs or in private. Thanks!

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