[freshports-coders] Getting started with FreshPorts admin

[Alex Samorukov]

Hi Dan,

I am Oleksij, a long-time FreeBSD user and ports committer (samm@).

My background is hosting, clouds (mostly AWS), databases (Postgres, 
MySQL), and some development (C, Golang, etc).

Would be glad to join the team.

On 2023/08/03 14:17, Dan Langille wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been putting out notices that I need to start involving others in 
> the maintenance and upkeep of FreshPorts. Some reached out, and I 
> suggested this old mailing list.
> 
> At least one person sent me an ssh-key, and I've lost track of who that 
> was.
> 
> What's up first: learning the structure and getting things updated.  
> Just 'pkg upgrade' and 'freebsd-update fetch install'.  Those commands 
> are straight forward, but knowing which services to shutdown when 
> updating the database server, etc... that's the kind of information 
> which needs to be passed on.
> 
> Others will need to take the lead on this. I'm happy to answer 
> questions, but I cannot devote time to driving the delegation and 
> discovery.
> 
> We have a host we can practice on, without affecting production: 
> r720-02 - it's at NYI.net in New York.
> 
> First step: speak up, tell us you're here. Nobody will be asked to do 
> stuff they aren't comfortable with. I'm happy to run screen share 
> sessions over Zoom/Google/etc to demonstrate and teach.
> 
> Thanks.
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