Hi Thorsten, *, Am 19.09.2012 19:36 schrieb Thorsten Behrens: > Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
[..] >> I can't see where the current admin team - plain volunteer based - did >> not cover the above mentioned requirements. Until now all services were >> available with reasonable uptime and quality. Please correct me in >> case I'm wrong. > Hi Friedrich, > oh, I'm truly sorry if the wording in ยง8 comes across in a way to > suggest the admin team is not doing their job - amended friendlier > verbiage welcome! > Quite the contrary - the admin team, that includes you, has done the > incredible job of building an infrastructure that reliably serves > millions of downloads and millions of pages to our users. What was > our monthly bandwidth usage again, around 6 TB? ;) Well, my report was not intended for fishing compliments - nevertheless they are welcome :o)) > This is no small feat, and we're beyond grateful to you guys. That > said, you would probably agree with me, that subsets of what the > admin team does needs significant time en bloc, daily attention, and > prompt reaction. In a word, it starts to look like a fulltime job - > and of course that person or contractor would be peer among the > admins, at no time I can see the TDF forego its meritocratic > principles. I continue not beeing happy, thinking typical community work to be paid *by the TDF* (from which point should I present the bill for *my* work?) > Ideally, TDF would have the funds to hire any number of people to > fill the gaps that you and others in this thread highlighted - alas, > this is not where we're at so far. So we have to prioritize, and for > me, infrastructure has critical priority - it is an acknowledgement > of your importance, Friedrich. ;) Whoohh - so many spoons of honey on my bread! ;o)) Well, consider my words as thoughts and concerns - nothing more. I'm shure You and the board people did think Your decision well. Let's continue discussing at the conference. :o)) Friedrich -- Friedrich Strohmaier - Admin team - The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org/
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