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diff --git a/www/news/alyssa-resignation.md b/www/news/alyssa-resignation.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2333db0b --- /dev/null +++ b/www/news/alyssa-resignation.md @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +% Alyssa Rosenzweig has resigned from the Libreboot project +% Leah Rowe +% 1 September 2017 + +Alyssa Rosenzweig has notified the rest of the team (Andrew Robbins, Paul +Kocialkowski, Leah Rowe and Swift Geek) of her intention to step down from the +core management team, as per [our management guidelines](../management.md), +due to increased pressure from school studies which prevent her from having +time to contribute. + +In her email, she wishes the Libreboot project well and states that she intends +to continue contributing in the future. + +I, Leah Rowe, wish Alyssa all the best in life, and I'm sure that this will be +felt by the other maintainers in Libreboot, and I'm extremely grateful for the +numerous invaluable contributions that she made to the project. + +A note about the hosting infrastructure, and sysadmin tasks +----------------------------------------------------------- + +Alyssa was previously acting as the system administrator for the Libreboot +project, in charge of maintaining the project's infrastructure. Additionally, +she was acting as Public Relations manager for the project; in particular, she +was handling Libreboot's application to join the GNU project. + +I have since assumed these responsibilities, at least for the time being, and +I will be working alongside the other members of the team going forward. +Since Alyssa had stepped down, nobody was in place to maintain the hosting +infrastructure for the project. Our old hosting provider was giving us issues, +so we switched hosting provider; this means that I'm currently maintaining the +hosting infrastructure for the project, since nobody else was willing to. + +The only piece of infrastructure currently missing is the mailing list. We now +have a fully functional mail server, and I will finish studying and installing +GNU Mailman version 3 (the software that will be used for handling the mailing +list). There are currently no repositories available for it on the GNU+Linux +distribution that libreboot.org uses (Debian), so we will have to maintain it +ourselves. + +Swift Geek also works alongside me, for sysadmin tasks, and has been +particularly helpful in advising on good practises for the setup of the new +mail server. I myself haven't had time to work on it for a while, but it will +be up soon. The mailing list that Alyssa created was only online for a week, +before we had to switch hosting provider for the project, and nobody had +started using it yet, so downtime for the mailing list hasn't been a huge +issue; people use the Notabug instance, and IRC. + +I will issue another news post, once the new mailing list is online. For the +time being, the links to it have been removed on the website. + +The mail server itself is online, so the 4 of us on the team now have +libreboot.org email addresses; these are published on the +[governance page](../management.md). If anyone wishes to contact a member of +the project directly via email, we recommend that you use these email +addresses. + +Of interest: the new hosting infrastructure for libreboot.org is entirely +libre. The main router on that network is a Libreboot system, with the router software +running on top of GNU+Linux. The server for libreboot.org (web and mail server) +is also a Libreboot system with GNU+Linux; postfix and dovecot for the mail +server, and nginx for the web server. DNS is also planned (the DNS hosting is +currently outsourced). + +Of further interest: libreboot.org is now IPv6-ready. All services are +dual stack IPv4+IPv6. Stronger encryption is used in the TLS configuration for +nginx aswell, for HTTPS, and HSTS is enabled by default. + +The certificate authority used for TLS is Let's Encrypt. This is used for +HTTPS and for encrypted connections to the mail server. + +The new hosting infrastructure is also much more secure than the previous one, +not just because Libreboot powers it but because of special configurations made +on externally accessible services (such as SSH and email). + +I am currently looking for a new colocation provider, but the hardware used +for hosting should be stable from now on. I have found one, which I'm looking +into, but I'm also considering other options. |