On Tuesday 21 September 2010 20:52:49 DenverD wrote:
Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Tuesday 21 September 2010 schrieb DenverD:
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i wonder what happens if (as has happened too often in recent weeks) the forum (or mail lists/irc/wiki/etc) machines/nets need TLC to return to work...[snip]
DenverD wrote: like now: the gateway between the nntp and http forums has been down since about midnight in Utah...and (if history serves as a predictor) it will probably remain down until a Utah employee gets to work and gets time to fix the problem..
And all volunteers are up 24 hours and don't sleep and have work to do for a living, right?
perhaps you would have a different view if these mail lists, SUSE Studio, IRC or your chosen method/communications means to contribute were unavailable for hours at a time on nine days in the past three months (2 Jul, 9 Jul, 21 Jul, 15 Aug, 22 Aug, 4 Sep, 13 Sep, 14 Sep, and 21 Sep...was down over seven hours today)..
we can hope the buyer is able to find volunteer (or contracted) administrators on three or more sides of earth.
Well if the community is unhappy with the services provided by Novell and the other sponsors, we can look for money somewhere else. If you have ideas on how to provide about a 100.000 worth of bandwith, diskspace and computing power a year, I'm sure the board loves to hear it. At least, once a foundation has been set up, we can start planning for improvements in our infrastructure. And I guess your concerns come with a willingness to do something about it so we can put you down as volunteer for maintenance, right? Until then, let's be happy Novell is paying for our infrastructure. It might not be perfect but as Stephan basically said - volunteer-run infrastructure won't be either.
DenverD