On Tue, Sep 19, 2006, Marc Volovic wrote about "Fwd: Re: קריאה להצעות: ריכוז תחזוקת שרת המקור": > However, if I understand correctly, Shachar fears that by undertaking to > manage the server he lays himself open to unending micro-management and > feeping creaturism directed by sundry members of the kommite... errr... vaad, > with rapidly rising costs, etc. I can well understand and identify with > Schachar's fears and concerns.
Then he can limit his involvement. Say, he will only spend N hours a month on this work (trusting Shachar to be an honest guy that will count the hours honestly), or only answer to M new requests each month. But, he cannot have the option to veto not even one of the elected board's decisions. This is not only ridiculous, I'm sure it even violates some Amutot law. If the board asks for "perl", "mysql", or "mediawiki" for what they consider important goals (some of which they were elected for), the sysadmin cannot say "I'd rather have only python, postgresql and cvs". Of course, he can say "I already spent 10 hours this month installing PHP, and now you also want Perl? Please let me rest and I'll do it next week". But not "I hate Perl so I'll never install it". Like Alon explained, it is the sysadmin's duty to also plan his work *in advance* according to the forseen needs. It is forseen, and was already forseen 3 years ago, that beak needs new services installed on it: wiki, cms, forum, voting, and what not. So the system needs to be designed for easily adding new services. When a sysadmin knows this is the case, a general Debian or Fedora system (with automatic updates, firewall, and other things required to keep that secure) is a more sensible choice than a home-grown everything-must-be-chrooted system. If the sysadmin insists on the latter configuration - he is neglecting his duty, because he knows that it will make it much harder for him to install the new software that the board wants: if instead of "apt-get" or "yum install", he needs to spend 20 hours studying each new piece of software, than he is guaranteeing in advance that the board will never be satisfied. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Sep 19 2006, 27 Elul 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |How long a minute depends on what side of http://nadav.harel.org.il |the bathroom door you're on. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
