Re: Proposal: New web site maintainers

[John Locke <..hidden..>]

Hello,

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I am not really interested in moving the site but I am certainly
> interested in having people contribute to the success of it. I even put
> out a call for people to help us in the past.
>
> I have disabled the comments for now. People should be using the mailing
> list anyway.
>
> What needs to happen with the website is:
>
> 1. Updated to the latest 6.x of Drupal
> 2. Captcha added for comments (and probably sign up)
>
> The first two are relatively easy and can be done by myself or one of my
> staff.
>
>    
We're managing 30+ Drupal installations, and keep a central git 
repository with a bunch of common contrib modules, making it so we can 
roll out updates in a matter of a minute or two (and roll back if 
there's a problem).

Captchas are very simple to enable, and we also have recently been 
impressed with the "spam" module for filtering out comments based on 
their spammyness, complete with a Bayesian filter.

Again, this type of stuff is what we do every day. I'd be happy to 
install our tools on your server and manage it there if you can provide 
shell access and install git.

One other potential reason to move: the power tools for managing Drupal 
(drush being the main one) now depend on relatively recent versions of 
PHP -- at least PHP 5.2. Your server's reporting 5.1.6. That can mean 
the difference between 45 minutes doing an update, or 45 seconds. (and 
yet many Drupal modules are only now becoming compatible with PHP 5.3...)

> 3. A small www team to help manage content and keep the website up to
> date.
>
> This is the part that we need to community help on.
>
>    

It does sound like there are several people on the list volunteering to 
help, we just need access and to agree on some guidelines.

What's next?

Cheers,
John Locke
Manager, Freelock Computing
http://www.freelock.com