30 Jun
2024
30 Jun
'24
7:05 p.m.
On 6/26/24 4:57 PM, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote:
Good question. There isn't a real succession plan. We do have a
handful of people behind the scenes (the TUHS team) who have access to
the server and who could take over the care and feeding if required.
The regular operations are mostly documented but, as always, could be
improved upon.
The "assets" are nearly all publicly available. The Unix archive can
be easily copied: see the end of
https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=source:unix_archive
The mailing list contents can be downloaded from here as Zip files:
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/
The actual list of people on the list isn't available, although the
TUHS team could easily get a copy.
The "tuhs.org" domain I have registered until May 2030.
What I should probably do is to ask one of the TUHS team to volunteer
to a) put their credit card up as a secondary for my cloud provider in
case my card stops working and b) give them access to the cloud
provider so they can make their card the primary one.
I did try to float the idea of a more formalised TUHS structure a
while back but there was not much enthusiasm at the time :-)
Cheers, Warren
P.S. And I should set up a "dead man's hand" script to tell the list
if I have been 'inactive' for a few weeks.
Hi Warren,
I didn't realize it was so easily mirrored. The instructions are super
clear and effective. This all sounds like a good approach to providing
for continuity over the long haul, even if it's not super formal.
It's interesting the perspectives gathering here - for some, it's like a
chat room to reminisce. For others, it's an information source. For a
few, it's a living history. What may not be apparent to some of the
folks who lived the history is that it is a fragile thread and those who
experienced its genesis firsthand are a rapidly shrinking population. If
we've seen misinformation creeping into discussions of late, it's only
going to get much worse over the years. Particularly if we don't capture
more of the real story and keep that alive. TUHS is a great resource for
folks to turn to when they want to dig deeper into the origins of UNIX
or to learn more about the motivations for early decisions that charted
the course of it's descendants. The transition from research unix to
commercial and open source is becoming history that fewer and fewer
folks really know much about. All this to say, TUHS is more than a chat
platform for reminiscing and clarifications of the record - it's a
historical record of important conversations that should be preserved
and protected :).
Thanks,
Will
Thanks for the details!
Will