====== BUGS Administration ======

As a general principal, BUGS infrastructure should not be reliant on a single person.  The website will be a Wiki that will allow all members to edit it.

===== Previous hosts =====
  * Sue Blake - web and email hosting with welearn.com.au
  * Greg Black - DNS secondary
  * Edwin Groothuis - mailing list
  * Sam Lawrance - web hosting
  * John Marshall - DNS hosting
Thank you all for your services.

===== DNS =====

The primary domain for BUGS is ''bugs.au.freebsd.org'' and is managed by the FreeBSD project.

In order to make any changes to DNS, we must contact the DNS admin for ''freebsd.org'' who is is currently [[hostmaster@freebsd.org]].  You can check the current admin at any time by doing ''host -t soa freebsd.org'' and examining the third phrase after "SOA".

There have been proposals that BUGS move to a new domain under ''.org'' or ''.org.au'' (suitable names are currently available) but no agreement has been reached that this would be beneficial.

===== Web server =====

The BUGS web server is hosted on vtr.rulingia.com, which is a FreeBSD VPS hosted on [[https://www.vultr.com/|Vultr]].  The BUGS website is an Apache virtual server accessible at any of
http://bugs.au.freebsd.org/,
https://bugs.au.freebsd.org/,
http://www.bugs.au.freebsd.org/ or
https://www.bugs.au.freebsd.org/.
The SSL certificate is provided by [[https://letsencrypt.org/|Let's Encrypt]].
Note that your browser needs to support [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication|SNI]] to use SSL (so if you're still using MSIE6.5, you're out of luck).
The VPS is owned by [[peter@rulingia.com|Peter Jeremy]].

More detail on the current configuration can be found [[protected:infrastructure|here]].
===== Mailing list =====

On 8th October 2007, the mailing list was returned to its permanent address at <bugs@bugs.au.freebsd.org>. The archive can be found at https://www.rulingia.com/pipermail/bugs/. To subscribe send an email to <bugs-subscribe@bugs.au.freebsd.org>. If this doesn't work, contact us on IRC.
The mailing list is managed by Peter Jeremy.

It had been previously temporarily being hosted by Sue Blake at http://can.welearn.com.au/mailman/listinfo/bugs and Edwin Groothuis at http://mailman.barnet.com.au/pipermail/bugs/.


===== IRC =====

BUGS does not currently maintain its own IRC server, although the option has been discussed in the past.

We inhabit #bugs on irc.oz.org and irc.austnet.org.  peter, callum, chuzz, juha, pez and groogle are administrators.

A second #bugs channel is available on freenode, though it is mostly idle. [[sue1topic|#bugs]] [[sue2topic|##bugs]]

We also setup a #bugs channel on OFTC (irc.oftc.net) to test the waters and as a backup. That network is properly maintained so we have a fully registered channel with op rights.