Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] help for savannah

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On 03/12/2011 10:40 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
>      I'd love to get more volunteers helping with support requests, but it's
>      not entirely trivial to get a new volunteer working on those issues
>
> Some support requests don't require root/shell access, just the web
> interface.  New volunteers could start with those (plus submission
> reviewing).
>    
That's a good point.
>      I'm not so sure focusing on a rewrite now,
>
> I fully agree with that.
>
> Anyway, how about something like this for an FSF/GNU blog post:
>
>    News from Savannah: Sylvain Beucler, who was instrumental in
>    modernizing and maintaining Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org) for the
>    last seven years, has decided to step down and look for new
>    challenges.  Many, many, thanks to Sylvain and best wishes.
>
>    Michael Flickinger, a long-time Savannah administrator, has resumed
>    work on the Savannah back end.  Of course, new volunteers would be
>    greatly appreciated.  Some specific tasks:
>
>    - Help with reviewing new project submissions.
>      http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToGetYourProjectApprovedQuickly
>
>    - Work on bazaar/loggerhead integration at Savannah, e.g., right now we
>      cannot offer web browsing of source repositories.
>      http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Bzr
>
>    - Help with handling support requests.
>      https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=administration
>
>    For those who want to explore, the main Savannah documentation
>    (architecture, procedures, faq's) is at
>    http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance.
>
> Wdyt?
>
>    
Sound good.