Dave Neary wrote: > Hi all, > > The board was made aware of Ross's mail to the list last week: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2007-January/msg00025.html > > discussed this quite a bit on the mailing list, and here's > how I (and we) see things: > > - Migrating infrastructure to a different server is not a board > decision to make, but since it impacts the project's infrastructure, the > board would like to be made aware of changes that include adding new > servers before the fact. > - In this particular case, several of the sysadmin team were aware that > you were planning the move of this infrastructure, and as you said, it > had been mentioned in the wiki several weeks before. The people most > concerned were aware that progress and socket were canonical machines, > which is the most important thing. It's unfortunate that people in > RedHat (who have invested quite a bit in GNOME infrastructure over the > years) weren't aware of that, and found out after the migration happened. > - Overall, this Subversion migration has happened swimmingly, so far > from doing damage, you have done a lot of good. > - If you want to take a break from the sysadmin team for personal > reasons, then you should do that - take as long as you want, get used to > only working 50 hour weeks and spend some time with your family. But I > would like to see you not shut the door on GNOME forever. > > In particular, since the Subversion migration is still pretty young, it > would be very imprudent to have your admin access removed. We'd like you > to continue to have admin access to the servers. > > What do you think? >
OK. It seems I didn't quite need to resign as such, so I take back my resignation. I will be trying to take more of a hands-off approach this year, so I can unwind a bit and pay more attention to some other aspects of my life, but contributing to GNOME will still feature in it somewhere I hope :) Thanks, guys. -- Ross _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
