[volunteers] Feb 2008 meeting

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> Speaking of pieces, I notice that three entire Web subtrees had been
> deleted from our site:
> 
> editorials/
> tech-notes/
> vote/
> 
> I have restored from backup.
> 
> This deletion was either inept or uncool.  If someone was (very) inept, 
> my condolences.  Either way, this sort of thing needs to not recur.



The above, in turn, prompted me to look up something Bruce Coston said
on this mailing list on Dec. 17th:

> I'm stuck with the assumption they're not as bad as I thought solely
> because so many webpages from the early 2000's vanished.

Bruce, it's _possible_ that you were referring to one or more of those 
sets of pages.  The "vote/" tree in particular houses SVLUG's pages
containing full details of the group's 2001 and 2004 elections:

$ pwd
/home/httpd/html/vote
$ ls -al
total 76
drwxr-xr-x    3 rick     rick         4096 2008-01-23 14:20 .
drwxrwxr-x   22 webslave webslave     4096 2008-01-23 14:36 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 rick     webslave     1890 2008-01-23 14:20 2001-merlin.shtml
-rwxr-xr-x    1 rick     webslave     4315 2008-01-23 14:20 2001-self.shtml
-r--r--r--    1 rick     webslave      227 2008-01-23 14:20 footer.shtml
-r--r--r--    1 rick     webslave     2744 2008-01-23 14:20 header.shtml
-rwxr-xr-x    1 rick     webslave      385 2008-01-23 14:20 index.shtml
-r-xr-xr-x    1 rick     webslave     3407 2008-01-23 14:20 prez2001-result.shtml
drwxr-xr-x    2 rick     webslave     4096 2008-01-23 14:20 RCS
-rw-r--r--    1 rick     webslave    18370 2008-01-23 14:20 svlug-pres-term-2004-result1.shtml
-rw-r--r--    1 rick     webslave     7603 2008-01-23 14:20 svlug-pres-term-2004-result2.shtml
-rw-r--r--    1 rick     webslave     2111 2008-01-23 14:20 svlug-pres-term-2004-result.shtml
-rwxr-xr-x    1 rick     webslave      463 2008-01-23 14:20 template.shtml
$

As I mentioned, I was completely unaware of those three mass-deletions
of SVLUG's files, and certainly would NOT have approved, had I known.
NOTE:  I would have found those deletions a lot sooner if you had told
me what _specifically_ you were talking about.

Remember my asking you and Alvin to please be specific?  That's one
reason why.

(I think I know who deleted them and why, but it's a surmise, and I'd
basically rather not go there.  Suffice it to say, this was _not_
discussed among the Web Team, and was not OK.)

Naturally, if you can give me _specifics_ of anything else you believe
has gone missing, please speak up.