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<h1>Mirror Maintainer</h1>
<p>The mirror maintainer ensures the quality of TLDP documentation hosted
on sites other than tldp.org.</p>
<h2>Responsibilities</h2>
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<li>Maintain the <a href="../mirrors.html">master list
of TLDP mirrors.</a></li>
<li>Act as a point of contact between TLDP and the mirror sites.</li>
<li>Perform quality checks to ensure that mirrors are properly
synchronized.</li>
<li>Ensure that contact information for mirror adminsitrators is known
and up to date.</li>
<li>Provide a degree of technical assistance to mirror sites.</li>
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<h2>Commitment</h2>
<p>Generally, one hour per month is sufficient. More time is needed when
performing quality checks. During this three week period, twice annually,
the work load is closer to one or two hours per week.</p>
<h2>Qualifications</h2>
<p>The mirror maintainer should posses some basic HTML knowledge to
maintain the list of mirrors, and also know some scripting to debug or
improve the check scripts. Understanding rsync is an additional asset.</p>
<h2>Supervision</h2>
<p>The mirror maintainer reports additions and changes to <a
href="mailto:discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org.NOSPAM">TLDP's general
discussion mailing list</a> and to the TLDP news editors.</p>
<h2>Training</h2>
<p>There is no formal training for this position.</p>
<h2>Policies Affecting Assignment</h2>
<p>The mirror maintainer needs to establish a user account and password
with Ibiblio and this account is subject to Ibiblio's network usage
policy.</p>
<h2>Benefits Of The Position</h2>
<p>The mirror maintainer helps spread the TLDP collection all over the
world.</p>
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