Howdy, hakkers! Over the last month or two, I've been trying to figure out a nice clean way for others to figure out who is responsible for what in the space. Originally I considered toying with the idea of having each Champion claim a title of something they're responsible for, such as Champion of System Administration, Champion of the Machine Shop, etc.
The problem with that is it creates a rigid hiearchy of who is in charge of something that could take a significant effort to change along with obvious feelings of resentment towards those who are percieved as having more power. After thinking back to how open source development works, I've created this wiki page: https://synhak.org/wiki/Maintainers It is an informal way for people to openly state that they are indeed the person who knows the most about how to work something. For example, if the internet at the space is down, I often get a few text messages about it long before someone mentions it on the discuss list. I'm not the one who configures our network, I just happen to keep the machines that use it happy :) If you feel confident that you can take responsibility for something at the space, add yourself to that table! It doesn't mean you're required to do anything or that you've made some kind of commitment to be on call 24/7. All it means is that we now have some documentation of who to go to for the fastest resolution of issues or who to ask for questions. If you're not the only one who is the de facto handler for a project, please add others who help out as well. If you don't know who is the maintainer of something, you can ask Chris or I and we'll figure it out. tl;dr: If you're a core volunteer who contributes a lot of effort towards our infrastructure, you should add yourself to the new Maintainers page on the wiki. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
