Re: Full time sysadmin for GNOME

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:30:12PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Chema Celorio">
> 
> > [Solution b]
> > If we decide to get a full time sysadmin on behalf of GNOME
> > i think that the foundation can figure that out where to get
> > the cash for this. I like this solution better.
> 
> I emailed Chema about my interest in this[*] privately. There is the
> question of the Foundation not really meant to be used for employing people,
> but I think Chema was just hoping for the Foundation to "figure out" how it
> could be done.
> 
> [*] I would be inordinately happy (overjoyed) to be able to do something on
> this scale for Gnome, and have offered myself as a volunteer to help out
> regardless of the Foundation's decision.

  Don't get me wrong, I do think that scaling up our sysadmin team
is getting urgent, Martin should have more time to hack on Gnome-2.0,
Owen and Greg will certainly appreciate help, etc ... Hey I manage
rpmfind, I know taht sometimes you just don't want to heard that a system
is broken, get feature request, etc. :-)

  So far our sysadmin team is volunteers or part time of people working
in Gnome related companies. I don't know how deeply we should change this,
personally I'm still leaning toward keeping the responsablities distributed
even if physically it makes some sense to keep our servers in the same
location.

   sounds a point to add to the Board agenda,

Daniel

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