Paolo Cavallini wrote:
Hi all. Concerning ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/392 I think the discussion should be brought to the attention of the list. For my experience, I do not think server administration is well suited for volunteer work. To me, server administration is a service, more or less like accounting or printing brochures. Moreover, I do not think precious developer time (the main limiting resource for open source software IMHO) is profitably spent administering servers (but thanks to all who are doing it!). In short, I'm suggesting to hire a part time server admin, who should be in charge of software upgrades (e.g. the trac) etc.
Paolo, Within some limits, I feel that system administration can be well suited to volunteers. I don't feel OSGeo can afford a good system administrator at market rates, even part time. If we were paying market rates I think it would take some serious cost benefit analysis to determine if the Trac upgrade would be a worthwhile investment of money. Nevertheless, I do keep an eye out for possible system administration services we could contract for at below international market rates to do some tasks that are now generally left undone, even if we couldn't get the "fire and forget" caliber of admin it would be nice to have. I'd add that at this time SAC's budget is rather modest, and focused on paying our Peer1 hosting costs, and the planned acquisition of some modest additional hardware. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss