On Dec 24, 2012, at 2:06 AM, Timothy Normand Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maintaining the wiki is definitely a way that an interested individual can > help who isn't necessarily into chip design. JHB came out of retirement > briefly to help out, but it's not his job anymore. It would be really > fantastic if someone would volunteer for this. > > People like to talk a lot, showing a lot of interest in the project. Maybe > one of those interested individuals could materially contribute by helping > with the wiki. Then there'd be a place to put the OGD1 schematics that > Dieter wants. > That's a great carrot, Timothy! I would also appreciate it if someone would step up. The stick, though, is this: I donate the hosting for this wiki. The server costs me money, and I use a lot of the space on it to donate to causes I like, like Open Graphics. However, I do have a few paying customers as well. I can't have these free sites bringing the web server down for paying customers. I don't mind stepping in every now and then to fix things, upgrade software, etc., but someone needs to take over the day to day maintenance so that I don't have to be alerted there's a problem by the server doing down repeatedly, especially when the problem appears to have been festering for months. The first time this happened, it happened the first day of a new job and I just couldn't get to it until I got home that night. Talk about rotten timing. If this wiki continues to cause stability problems, I will only have two choices: step in and maintain it myself, which I honestly don't have time to do, or ask for it to be migrated elsewhere. I really don't want to have to make that choice and I won't make it right away - I'll clean up what I can and wait a reasonable amount of time for someone to step up, but someone's got to at some point. Thanks. :) --Russell _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
