Hi Sam, I've got some pretty good general sysadmin skills. I would have to get up to speed with some of the specific technologies but that should not be a problem. I'm pretty much booked up to the end of the year, with lots to do but, come January, I should be in much better shape.
James On Dec 7, 2021, at 3:30 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > Currently, the implementation of https://pkgs.racket-lang.org as well > as https://pkg-build.racket-lang.org (see Notes) is primarily > maintained by Matthew Flatt, although much of it was originally > written by Jay McCarthy and Tony Garnock-Jones (for pkgs in > particular). Matthew of course wears a lot of hats and maintains lots > of things, and he's tired of this job. > > As a result, I'm going to take over the sysadmin role, but I'm looking > for additional people who can help out as well -- this is a key part > of Racket infrastructure and one person is probably not enough. Anyone > with experience with system admin, web servers, the Racket web server, > AWS, Docker, etc would be great, or but expertise is _not_ required, > just a willingness to help out. > > Of course, there are many ways to improve the system as well, and > helping to maintain it is a great way to get started on that. > > If you're willing to volunteer some time to help with this, let me > know, either here or by messaging me (@samth) on Discord or Slack. > > Sam > > ### Notes: > > The implementation of pkgs.racket-lang.org is a front-end here: > https://github.com/racket/racket-pkg-website and a backend here: > https://github.com/racket/pkg-index/. They both run on the same EC2 > instance, and store almost all of the state (including the index of > packages) in S3. > > The implementation of pkg-build.racket-lang.org is a separate > continously-running EC2 instance running the `pkg-build` package, > implemented here: https://github.com/racket/pkg-build > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAK%3DHD%2Ba5zFaHMGijuhCZ_jb7g1aEmukMwyXfxHYiErEWU%2B5aFQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/55BA3E3A-7945-4DCD-AD59-3764BF3F6390%40biomantica.com.
