Re: [boost] boost.org https certificate expired 4 month ago

Subject: Re: [boost] boost.org https certificate expired 4 month ago
From: Marcin Zalewski (marcin.zalewski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-12 17:49:18

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:46 PM Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On 11 Aug 2015 at 1:36, Klaim - Joël Lamotte wrote:
>
> > > I noticed today that the https of boost.org is expired, and should
> have a
> > > new certificate:
> > > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=boost.org
> > >
> >
> > My understanding is that the process to renew the certificate was started
> > few months ago but
> > got nowhere. Not totally sure why though.
> > The last status report from the steering committee is available there:
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.steering/126
>
> We have a new SSL cert, and have had for some months.
>
> The problem is installing it. We no longer have root access to the
> server in question and I understand the person who had root access
> isn't responding to email.
>

Who is this person? I am asking just in case it is someone at Indiana
University. If it is someone here, it could be that they moved away and are
no longer part of IU.

> We would move to new servers, but need root access to copy off all
> the existing data. So we keep pinging emails, and hope one day the
> person in question replies.
>
> This is why we need a dedicated employed person to do this stuff, to
> keep migration plans and plan upkeep so getting orphaned from access
> never occurs in the first place, and even if it did there is a live
> offsite backup configured using docker/drbd etc we can replicate
> from. The steering committee can only authorise that spending if
> there is consensus from boost-dev that someone should be employed to
> do this stuff, until that happens this situation will keep recurring
> into the future with no end in sight.
>
> Niall
>
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