Just wanted to let you all know that we split the infrastructure mailing list into two parts: a mailing list for Drupal.org webmasters, and a mailing list for Drupal.org server administrators. This separation should allow us to better coordinate the maintenance and development of the various Drupal.org websites.

The "Drupal.org webmasters" are responsible for the organization of the websites, the Drupal.org brand, blocking spam, dealing with user account problems and so on. The "Drupal.org server administrators" on the other hand, fiddle with the Apache and MySQL configurations, the mail server, the CVS repositories, and will take on the task of upgrading the various Drupal.org websites.

In addition to a dedicated mailing list, each group also got a dedicated issue tracker: issues for webmasters and issues for server administrators. If you bump into a problem related to the Drupal.org websites, try to select the correct project.

And last but not least, we're actively looking for more people to get involved with the day-to-day maintenance of all our infrastructure and the continued development of new bells and whistles. As you might have read, Drupal grew by more than 230% in 2006, and hopefully we'll be able to welcome many new users throughout 2007. This continued growth requires us not only to streamline our workflow, but also to get more people on board to help.

For 2007, it looks like our server administrators will have to invest heavily in (i) tuning our setup, (ii) optimizing Drupal and/or (iii) adding more hardware to our setup. I'd also like to figure out with the webmasters what changes we have to make to improve the Drupal.org experience. So if you want to help, a good start would be to subscribe to the proper mailing list and to work that issue queue. Should be fun and interesting!