Hi :) I think that in the specific case of David it would be smart to invite him to join the sys-admin team. I do appreciate it might not be good to allow everyone to join as and when they feel like it but David is a significant contributor to the docs team in that role. If he isn't invited to join then out will be missing out on a lot of talent there. Ideally there would be someone from the Brazilian Team too to spread the load internationally but i don't know of anyone in any other team that has shown David's level of commitment and skill in that particular type of role. To be fair i am not on the Brazilian lists so they might have someone too.
Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Thorsten Behrens <[email protected]> To: David Nelson <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 3 August, 2011 9:36:08 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] funding for system operations meeting David Nelson wrote: > My point is that the sysadmins team is perhaps not developing the > right culture in terms of openness and participation, and that it > would be good to open it up a bit. This is my 2 cents, others may not > see things like that, but... > Hi David, I indeed disagree here. The admin team for our central infrastructure (in contrast to e.g. auxiliary sites, staging systems etc.) will always be a small & closely-knit team of people, with lots of mutual trust & ideally personal relations. There's a fundamental difference between sysadmin and e.g. hacking work, in terms of accountability, auditability, liability, reviewability, reversibility & the probability to royally fsck things up. So applying the same yard stick to both groups will not work. Let's meet in Paris & talk things through over a beer though. :) Cheers, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
