Hello, it’s monthly log time.
There was a lot of behind-the-scenes work in October, and a lot of security disclosures that required action.
- We finally reinstalled the original storage devices into one of our servers, freeing up the temporary loan of backup devices. @davean did the physical work.
- I updated the Haskell wiki to pick up the fix for PHP2Shell.
- I updated the operating systems on a few servers in response to other vulnerabilities.
I have a lot of ongoing work that was active in October. An epic yak shave commenced when I started adopting a few domains, primarily stackage.org, into HF management. That led to a cleanup of our access and credentials in the dashboards of our service providers, which led to a cleanup of our haskell.org email server. Hence some of the changes that I will make this morning.
When I look back at the “work queue” I wrote for August, I am suprised to discover that two of the tasks (#2 and #3) are actually complete! So, as it turns out, my list doesn’t just monotonically grow longer. Though the trend is still pretty clearly positive. 
From a 20,000 ft perspective, I believe my work should now focus explicitly on ensuring a good pipeline of Haskell admins. Some of the same infra volunteers have been plugging away for over a decade. Many of them have moved on. Others would like to move on. Until we develop better procedures for onboarding and offboarding, we will often be caught in a frustrating limbo when it comes time to track down the person responsible for some dusty corner of the overall system.
That’s all for now, time for email fun!