[volunteers] brie

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

> I'm sure I remember it to also be "gruyere" locally, but that seems to have 
> disappeared from /etc/hosts.

Bizarre.  Well, that needs fixing.

> And is it wise for the DNS contact to be 
> root at svlug.org?

That will do.  I cannot offhand think of a scenario where that is a
functional liability.

 
> BTW, the listinfo page for the main list still has a .shtml link.

Can fix.

That was not within the reach of Lisa's script, being defined inside
Mailman's own records.

> > > the DNS properly (where *is* the master DNS server?  is it on
> > > svlug.org?)
> > 
> > On grueyere.
> 
> This may be in addition to the DNS daemon brie might run.

Another nameserver would be OK, but not a significant priority.  We have
four, all working perfectly.  RFC recommendations are minimum three,
maximum seven.


> Like CVS, but unlike RCS, svn is primarily geared toward a code
> release cycle.  Like RCS but more so, git is intended to be used on
> any ol' data.

But can be used in the conventional centralised model, too.

> However, git is also ridiculous bloatware in the sense that everyone
> doing anything with the data must have a copy of the entire
> repository, along with all revisions ever made, or at least I have
> never found any other way.

Design spends a bit on space, but gains immensely in speed.a  (These are
fine points, anyway, and practiclaly any SCM is relatively OK.)

I happen to maintain one of the main comparison pages on SCMs.  It's in
my knowledgebase.