Re: Hello Richard
Sunday, 17 May, 2009 7:37 AM
From:
"John C. Vernaleo"
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"ADARSH SINGH"
Hi. I'm John (john@netpurgatory.com). As RMS may have said, I'm the
one who gets people volunteering set up. Of the current people
helping, I've been doing it the longest, so if you have any trouble,
just email me, and there is a good chance I know what is up. And I
can usually answer faster than rms. For the most part I don't do
normal updates anymore due to time issues, but I try to make sure
everything runs smoothly.
Before you can log in, please email me an ssh key (as an attachment).
If you need help doing that, let me know. After you can log in, you
should send rms an email so he can add you to the email list that he
sends updates to.
Once I've put your ssh key in, so you should be able to connect with a simple ssh rms@stallman.org (we all log in as rms so permissions don't become a problem). If it doesn't work, let me know.
RMS sends emails to everyone, usually a few a day. The majority of them are the pol-notes. These need to be put in the current pol-note file. At the moment, that file is ~/public_html/archives/2009-mar-jun.html. This file is switched with a new file every two months by a cron job (where the new file overlaps with the old one by a month). Also, an rss feed is made from the current page by a cron job.
Pick some text from the note (or a slight variation if it sounds better) as the title and put this in a line by itself above the last pol-note. Then in emacs type Meta-x fix-pol-note to format the title properly.
Then put the text of the note and put the link somewhere appropriate.
For urgent notes, they go in the pol-note page (with the title urgent note and some unique number if there are more than one for that day) and in the urgent note section of the main page. Expired urgent note should occasionally be removed from the main page only.
Long term note only go on the main page. Anything else, just follow the instructions in the email. Recently, we've been doing a lot of unsubscribe requests for mailing lists from rms.
You should send an email to rms (not to stallman.org) and to me after
you update things with a quick update of what you've done (4
pol-notes, 2 urgent note or something like that).
Currently the only way we coordinate things is to just look at the website and see what has already been done. I also tend to type "who" when I log on to make sure no one else is editing when I am.
There are a lot of pages in ~/public_html/photos, but those are all automatically generated, so don't worry about them.
They main page is valid html and we are trying to keep that up. Slowly other pages are also being made to validate, so try to keep that in mind. The pol-note pages are not valid at the moment.
Also, in case you are worried about backups, I have a cron job on my home machine that rsyncs ~rms to a spare disk on my machine once a week, and keeps dated tarballs of it that go back a little more than a month.
Thanks for helping.
John
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