The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on that server.
For October, 2008:
If you remember in my last report I said something about September being a 'tumultuous month'. Well little did I know.
The server continued to be problematic as we petitioned Hetzner to investigate. Finally they took a look and the immediate result was catastrophic and the server was down for about 4 days. I've recounted the details elsewhere
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2008-October/132082.h...
and won't go into it again here.
Well Hetzner did finally come to our rescue (along with the invaluable assistance of Marcus Denker, Cees de Groot, and Göran Krampe) and I can now report that the server has been up and running nicely since October 23rd. Don't uncross your fingers yet, but perhaps we can all breathe easier.
I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund the box and remind you that the bills continue to appear and that you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to
http://www.squeak.org/Foundation/SupportSqueak/
and purchasing a Squeak badge. Note that a donation here may be used for other Squeak Foundation services including but not limited to development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak.
The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are not limited to):
SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/
http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/
http://source.squeakfoundation.org/
http://update.squeakfoundation.org/
and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names.
Ken
box-admins@lists.squeakfoundation.org