[Smaug] Call for Web site proposals

[Ian]

I could make a new website if needed.  It would, however, be one of 
those CMS things that Rick hates so much...  I don't want to waste my 
time making something that isn't needed/wanted.

Thoughts anyone?

Ian

On 3/18/2012 12:17 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting peterbe at sdf.org (peterbe at sdf.org):
>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 07:26:19PM -0700, Jeremiah Daniels wrote:
>>> Got.Net says the site was taken down because something about it was
>>> a security vulnerability, that it was compromised somehow. They
>>> tarred it all up.
>>>
>>> They don't want to put it back up without it being cleaned first.
>>>
>>> How to proceed?
>>
>>   I have no idea. I don't know anything about Drupal, I don't have a
>>   password for making any significant modifications except what the
>>   user interface can do from my account. I'd rather have a basic php
>>   page which I know how to deal with, actually.
> Gosh, what a fscking surprise.  Please see point #4, 'Security
> nightmares'.  http://lists.svlug.org/archives/smaug/2005q4/001372.html
>
>    4. Security nightmares.  PHP-based[1] CMSs' security histories, in
>    particular, have generally been a bad joke, and ones that rely on the
>    PHPXMLRPC daemon more so.  Drupal is both written in PHP _and_ relies
>    on PHPXMLRPC.  [...]
>
> How come _nobody ever listens_ to Unix sysadmins when they speak
> squarely within their area of expertise?
>
>
> You know, Smaug _had_ a perfect serviceable page that David Gatwood
> created at SourceForge, which was maintained via ssh / text editor and
> svn checkins, but suddenly someone swooped in and said 'Simple, modular
> HTML sucks; let's go with Teh Shiny', pronounced that simple maintence
> regime as 'all that rubbish' (French cherry person 'Phil/CERisE', link
> #3 below), and suddenly y'all asked in 2005 to repoint the DNS at the Drupal
> thing Jay Campbell created over at Got.net.
>
> http://lists.svlug.org/archives/smaug/2005q4/001455.html
> http://lists.svlug.org/archives/smaug/2006q4/001729.html
> http://lists.svlug.org/archives/smaug/2006q4/001728.html
>
> The 'smaug-web' project Jacob Hunter and David Gatwood created at
> SourceForge still exists:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/smaug-web/
>
> We therefore could repoint the DNS back to that (now long unmaintained)
> SF.net-based set of Web pages in a heartbeat.  (Well, as soon as I
> re-research what frelling IP to point to.)
>
> Of course, the problem with that was that literally nobody but me ever
> bothered to ssh in, use a text editor to update Web pages, and check
> changes into svn:
> http://lists.svlug.org/archives/smaug/2005q4/001273.html
>
> And _then_, after I repeatedly asked the alleged members to participate
> in site maintenance, deliberately stopped for a bit to see of there were
> any takers, and the only result was that one Peter Belew saw fit to
> complain that the site was 'way out of date':
> http://lists.svlug.org/archives/smaug/2005q4/001270.html
>
> So, hey, if someone wants to get off his ass and create something that
> y'all want to at least pretend you want to maintain, let me know when
> it's up, and we'll point the DNS at it.  If, as I expect, nobody lifts a
> finger after about a week, I'll see if I can figure out how to
> reactivate the site hosted at SourceForge.
>
> I'm more than a little cynical on the subject at this point, because
> I'm getting the vibes that if it isn't maximally pointy-clicky a la
> Drupal, i.e., if you're aren't able to avoid the need for that nasty
> basic competence with standard Unix tools, you're going to sit on your
> hands, not help, and whine a lot and demand Web-mediated editing.
>
>
> CALLING ALL WEB FOLK:
>
> This is your chance to create a new Smaug Web site.  You have a week.
> Tell me what IP to point www.scruz.org to.
>
> A static mirror of the (SourceForge-based) site Smaug used in 2005 is here:
> http://linuxmafia.com/smaug/htdocs/
> It uses SSIs (server-side includes), and could be fairly trivially
> converted over to PHP.  You are most welcome to borrow liberally from
> what Smaug used through 2005.  Or, if you prefer, not.
>
> Tarball:
> http://linuxamafia.com/smaug/smaug.tar.gz
>
>
>
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