On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Luke S. Crawford wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 08:51:03AM -0600, Elijah Wright wrote: >> We use Friday at noon to Monday noon for weekend coverage. >> >> We stopped using weeklong oncall shifts last year and went to daily >> rotation (we use pagerduty to organize this). It's far less draining, and >> it encouraged us to get better about ticketing issues to smooth handoff. > > Oh man, that sounds pretty great. How did it work out?
I think i talked about this before, but: the best on call situation I've had was a scheduled 24 hrs, and it repeated on the same night each week. We rotated the weekends between the team, but even knowing that you'd have the same night of on call for the next few months was a huge help to scheduling your life. You could plan to be at a regularly scheduled meeting without issue, or worrying about which week. You could easily swap a night of oncall for a colleague's night, and be square by the end of the week. (Trading weeks was always complex, and troublesome before this.) Really, i thought it was an excellent way to deal with it. Matthew _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
