Ok. Sorry about my comment. I won't be able to check this in until Sunday.
Regards, Alan -----Original Message----- From: Leo Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [committers] can you build the website? Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > The amount of energy that we are expending on this is silly. Can we not > just start a paypal account to get the infrastructure people a tape > drive? there's a paypal account already, and money shouldn't really need to be an issue here (it is something for fundraising@ to worry about IIUC). The things that usurps the time and energy are the usual things an IT team needs to think about. Who's going to replace the tapes when full? Who is going to install the drive? What software is used? How is it configured? Tarballs, sure, but how are they going to arrive at their location? Who runs what crontabs? Will that compromise security? How much resources will this thing cost? What maintainance needs does it have? What are the uptime requirements? How critical is this system to our operation? How do we get all other projects to change their site generation policy to use the same mechanism? What should be the upgrade path? Who's going to volunteer to answer all these questions, do the maintainance, write documentation, convince people its a good thing? Find answers to these questions and others, write them down, get consensus, get PMC support, get the proposal to infrastructure@, make lots of noise about it, take the time to read the 200 responses the wider community will inevitably generate, handle the follow-up, help do the work....phew! It is always a lot of energy. Every time you send an e-mail message to a public mailing list, chances are 100s of people will spend some time reading it. That's a lot of energy. I'm not saying the current situation is perfect, I'm not saying the workflow is perfect, I'm not saying I have the slightest clue about how to install a tape drive...what I'm trying to offer is some perspective. - LSD
