[ANNOUNCE] cyrus-utils script and docs repository

[Jeremy H. <jh...@op...>]

I noticed on info-cyrus that a lot of the same questions were being asked
and answered, and that a lot of people were creating the same basic
maintenance scripts. I figured that we could avoid these two problems by
creating a central repositorary for answers to FAQs, and for
patches/scripts.

So I've created a Sourceforge project 'cyrus-utils' to address this, since
this is just the kind of thing that Sourceforge is good for. There are two
sub-projects--cyrus-utils-scripts and cyrus-utils-docs, each with their own
mailing list:
  http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=33489

Thanks to Tarjei Huse, the docs are currently in a FAQ (which will be much
improved from this good start over the next few days, particularly if you
contribute!):
  http://cyrus-utils.sourceforge.net/faq/
and each script/patch has a bit of documentation too:
  http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=33489

We'll probably unify all this under some better system like faq-o-matic
soon. If you solve a tricky Cyrus problem please post your solution to
cyr...@li... as well as info-cyrus, so that we can
include your information in the FAQ. If you have any suggestions for good
FAQ software please let us know--we're looking for something that allows as
to store the FAQ items in a structured way, and allow people to dynamically
add their own comments.

The utilities are available from Sourceforge too:
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33489
Although most of these scripts have homes elsewhere, this site provides a
single point for everyone to access.

At this stage the following people are involved:
  Jeremy Howard: Project Manager
  Tarjei Huse: Doc Manager
  Alain Turbide: Websieve
  Gary Mills: Easysieve, imapcreate, Sendmail LMTP conf
  Jules Agee: imapmigrate
  Kevin Menard and Simon Loader: LDAP/MySQL auth patch
  Ken Murchison: Cyrus project team

I'd like to thank all of these folks for their help in bringing this project
to life. This project is not affiliated with CMU so don't hassle them about
any requests or ideas--post to one of the two mailing lists mentioned
earlier. However thanks to Larry we will shortly have a link to Cyrus-utils
from the Project Cyrus web site, and will be hosting an online version of
the Project Cyrus documentation with links as appropriate from the FAQ.

Help from Cyrus users would be much appreciated. In particular,
contributions of scripts/patches that you have written, or
documentation/installation/config notes for the FAQ, would both benefit
others by being made available and may benefit you as improvements are made
and contributed back.

Feedback, offers of help, suggestions, all most welcome. My hope is that
cyrus-utils will increase the number of users, reduce the noise on the
mailing list, reduce the admin workload of the core team so they can
concentrate on the cool enhancements we all bug them for, and encourage
the development of standard powerful administration and maintenance tools.

Please get familiar with the FAQ so that next time a question is asked that
is
answered there, just post a pointer to the relevent FAQ section. If the
answer is not in the FAQ please contribute it!