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From: Jeremy H. <jh...@op...> - 2001-08-30 22:55:03
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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! |