[gnu.org #342287] Re: [GNU Herds]: hosting at the FSF ?

[Joshua Ginsberg via RT]

The FSF is not equipped to offer specialized PHP hosting at this time on
any of the Foundation-administered machines.

-jag

> address@hidden - Sun Sep 02 18:43:02 2007]:
> 
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> > Nobody but sysadmins have any direct access to our web servers.
> > Even our webmasters edit the web pages thru savannah.
> >
> > We just don't do the sort of thing that you are asking for.
> 
> That is good news for us!  So if the project is finally installed at
> FSF hosts
> users will be sure their data is taken with care, because only
> sysadmins will
> have direct access to it.  That is the best to the project.
> 
> We can work thru savannah. It is not a problem for us. We will not
> need a ssh
> account. Read below.
> 
> 
> > If it is just a matter of HTML files, that we CAN do.  We would have
> > to look at the site's contents, and judge that it is really ok for
> our
> > site.  The webmasters may have other issues, too.
> 
> The project is an interactive PHP webapp.  We will adapt it to your
> needs.
> Feel free to modify the content or any other thing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Notes about features:
> 
> Users can add new skills, which get the pending-to-class state.  We
> did it to
> add flexibility to the webapp. The current possible states are:
> 
>   * Free
>   * Non-Free
>   * Unknown
>   * Pending to class
> 
> Non-Free and Pending skills are not showed at public job offers or
> public
> resumes.
> 
> Somebody will have to process the pending-to-class skills.  So we
> commented
> you about the ssh account to do it ourselves, and so do not load you
> with new
> tasks.
> 
> Now, we can develop a new web page inside the webapp so that it can be
> managed
> by a webapp-admin, via HTTPS, without the need of a ssh account.  That
> admin
> could be assigned by the FSF or else we could realize it ourselves.
> 
> 
> The database has lots of skills already loaded: C++, XML, SMTP, ..
> and we think that at the end it will be unusual that users insert a
> skill
> which is not already at the data base and already classified.  So
> raising a
> new pending-to-class skills will be unusual at the end.
> 
> 
> Note that there are rules which autocorrect skills towards its
> canonical name,
> for example:
> 
>     from:  adA   to:   Ada
>     from:  c++   to:   C++
>     from:  Xml   to:   Extensible Markup Language (XML)
> 
> 
> There are rules which suggests corrections, for example:
> 
>     from:  linux
> 
>     suggestions:
>         Linux kernel
>         GNU/Linux
>         Keep as is
> 
> 
>     from: Uml
> 
>     suggestions:
>         Unified Modeling Language (UML)
>         User-Mode Linux (UML)
>         Keep as is
> 
>  Reference:
>    file:    Layer-5__DB_operation/Skills.php
>    method:  getSuggestedSkillsLists()
> 
> 
> Let us know if you think this feature is too much complex, or must be
> removed,
> or it is not convenient, or ...
> 
> 
> Note that other sections does not have such pending-to-class control.
> For
> example the user can write anything at the "FS projects" section and
> it will
> be showed in public resumes and offers.
> 
> You could look at the webapp and let us know if you want we add the
> same
> admin-control to some of the other sections.  The gnuherds project is
> just a
> proposal in draft mode.
> 
> Let us know anything we must modify or feel free to modify it. We are
> not in a
> hurry.
> 
> 
> P.S.: We have noted some bugs which we will follow fixing.
> 
> Best regards,
> The work team
> 
> 
-- 
Joshua Ginsberg <address@hidden>
Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator