[16812] in athena10
Debathena entry in the SIPB project roles document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cel Skeggs)
Tue Sep 17 22:28:14 2019
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 22:27:46 -0400
From: Cel Skeggs <cela@mit.edu>
To: <debathena@mit.edu>
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Hi debathena maintainers,
My current understanding is that the main thing we need to get
Debathena maintained by current students again (assuming that this is
what we want) is to find a current student with appropriate skills to
join the project and drive its revival, in the same way as what I've
been doing with Scripts.
I wrote a suggested entry for the new SIPB project roles document, which
reads as follows:
** SIPB Debathena **
Contact: debathena@mit.edu
Debathena is a long-established SIPB project that maintains the
operating system used by MIT’s athena clusters, and made available for
installation on group and personal computers. Currently, it does not
have any students actively maintaining it, and is entirely maintained
by alumni in their copious free time.
Roles:
* Project Reviver: work on becoming the first new student maintainer
of Debathena in the past few years, by coordinating with previous
maintainers, learning how the system works, dealing with code
improvements and bugfixes, and bringing new students up to speed.
* Prereqs: significant experience installing and using Linux,
significant experience with the Linux command line, previous
programming experience, strong communication skills, strong sense
of self-motivation
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Does this entry seem reasonable to you? Is there anything you'd like me
to change? You are also welcome to throw this out entirely and put
whatever you want in the document; I'm suggesting this to try to make
sure we have something for Debathena.
Cheers,
~ Cel
