On Aug 28, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Andrew Deason wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:04:10 -0700 > Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This issue has never been the serious blocker for standards work >> around AFS. That blocker has always been the same thing that blocks >> most things about AFS: simple lack of time among the people who are >> currently able to do the work. > > "Not enough time/resources" isn't really a reason; not on its own. The > people able to do this work have plenty of time, but they just choose to > spend it doing other things. The blocker "reason" then, it why they do > that. For at least me, and the impression I've gotten when talking to > others, there are a few reasons....
I'd add another to the list Andrew supplied: lack of institutional support. When I took over the umich cell six years ago there was a fair amount of benign neglect that had to be undone, and for a couple of years we were able to put significant time into improving the cell. In the past two years that time has dropped to zero as we all 'do more with less.' The further something is from having an immediate benefit to the University (Michigan), the less likely it will be approved to work on. For six years I've struggled to get the University to commit actual cash to oafs projects. Twice I got to yes at the director level, both time the person saying yes left the University shortly thereafter. The current director is completely uninterested, so I'm not beating that dead horse. The folks who work on the other afs cells here (there are at least two others) report the same issues. The few folks I know at other schools report the same. Steve_______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
