(anonymous) wrote: >> So we should add more roots, ideally of course Solaris/Linux >> bilinguals with 20+ years of HA and MySQL replication expe- >> rience and lots of spare time on their hands, practically >> any bright mind who can track down some bug, update the pup- >> pet configuration and care for all the other tidbits while >> documenting their work meticulously, so that the roots can >> focus on the more complicated stuff.
> unfortunately it is not that easy (and finding a solaris-person is quite > hard). > There are other problems too. For example you have to find somebody who is > accepted by WMDE (as owner) AND WMF (as database-owner). Than there is nearly > no or no up2date docu. Also WMDE still believes that the toolserver will not > survive this year so the contract would be limited (so much learning for a > short job). The person would also have to life with me, you all and the > community – and neither is easy sometimes. > Another point is that the influence of WMDE would increase (Wes Brot ich es, > des Lied ich sing) and taken the position of WMDE I'm not sure if that is a > good idea. I wasn't thinking about a paid job, but harvesting the vol- unteer potential of the toolserver usership. If there are problems along the way, we'll sort them out. But not moving forward because there *might* be problems is not acceptable IMHO given that we have many *existing* problems right now. > I know that some of you wait for stuff to happen and I'm sorry that it takes a > lot of time sometimes – but my to-do-list is long and even my time is limited. > I hope to fix some things during my next semester break (beginning in 2 > weeks), > but not everything will be fixed. And that's the reason why we need more roots. There is no point in forcing all the work on two people and them to rush fixes (which usually doesn't result in good quality), when we have lots of people around who could solve issues in a jiffy. Tim _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
