[wplug-board] Voting System Update

[Evan DiBiase]

On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 11:29  PM, Jeremy Dinsel wrote:

>
> Woah .. we're moving to redhat? I strongly disagree with moving to 
> redhat.

Okay, it's my fault for making this sound like a done deal, but Rob and 
I did talk about moving away from Debian and I think it really makes 
sense in our situation for a few reasons:

1. RedHat has an excellent ratio of fresh to stable, while Debian 
generally does not. RedHat tends to release stable versions about every 
six months, as opposed to Debian's considerably longer stable release 
cycle. Testing sounds like it occasionally has some major issues that I 
don't think we want to get in to, and unstable would be insane.

2. If Rob heads up the Server Committee, as the general consensus was at 
the last board meeting, it would be nice to have penguin be running the 
distribution he knows well. As far as I know, Rob has a far more 
in-depth and useful knowledge of RedHat than of Debian, which, to me, 
means that he'll be more capable at administering a RedHat machine than 
a Debian one.

I'll think about this some more, but I have to go. My intention was not 
to start a flamewar, so I apologize again for making this sound like it 
was final.

-Evan

> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Evan DiBiase wrote:
>
> : Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:13:19 -0400
> : From: Evan DiBiase <evand at wplug.org>
> : Reply-To: wplug-board at wplug.org
> : To: wplug-board at wplug.org
> : Subject: [wplug-board] Voting System Update
> :
> : Hey,
> :
> : As far as Rob and I can tell at this point, the PostgreSQL server 
> being
> : used to run the board voting stuff has somehow corrupted itself 
> (it's a
> : really old version). Long term (next weekend) we're going to move, 
> most
> : likely, to Red Hat 7.2, bringing all kinds of updates, but unless we
> : figure out the Postgres problem in the meantime, the board voting 
> system
> : should be considered out of commission.
> :
> : At any rate, we now have some standing committees :-) I was going to
> : submit all of the Chair suggestions we talked about to the system 
> today,
> : but, obviously, that'll have to wait.
> :
> : -Evan
> :
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