[committee] [wheel] Wheel/Group Review

[David Adam]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, James Arcus wrote:
> The UCC committee is currently reviewing the membership of wheel, as there has
> been some discussion recently over the size of the wheel group. The committee
> would like to ensure is wheel made up of members who actively want to be wheel
> members.
> 
> As a current wheel member, if you would like to remain on wheel, please reply
> to this email stating that you would like to remain a wheel member by the 12th
> of July.
> 
> All wheel members must follow the regulations of UCC including the wheel
> ethical guidelines. By replying to this email that you would like to remain on
> wheel, you will be acknowledging your continued agreement to follow the
> regulations of UCC including the wheel ethical guidelines.
> 
> After the 12th of July, there will be a purge of wheel members who have not
> responded.

Well, it's been fourteen years (since 20050408), and I've had a good run. 
I'll hand back my Wheel bits on the day above, though I'm always happy to 
assist where needed.

Thanks to everyone for a really interesting time. I learned heaps and got 
at least one job out of my wheel experience. Some highlights:
 * 10 days after getting my Wheel key, the power went out while virtually 
   everyone was in Canberra for LCA - a bit of a trial by fire in getting 
   the whole system back online
 * all the negotiation and then technical hackery involved in the Bright 
   link (though I didn't do much of the latter)
 * uccpass - before this we all had scraps of paper floating around our 
   wallets with root passwords on them
 * getting rancid set up so we actually had some idea of what was 
   happening on the switches
 * getting WPA2-EAP and IPsec working - huge amounts of time and
   headbanging but magic once they were working
 * replacing cron-apt-zanchey with unattended-upgrades
 * setting the record for longest distance network breakage after running
   `routef` on the core router from Mount Barker
 * far too many late nights and early mornings unbreaking things!

I'd still like my UCC account and VM, and will probably be asking for a 
few things here and there.

David Adam
UCC (soon to be former) Wheel Member
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Don't ask me any more about our SLA