Amen to that! Sysadmin have always supported us (Student Programs, Community Working Group) in when we've asked and even before we ask. :-)
Thank you. Valorie On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 3:28 AM Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Ben, dear admins for KDE infrastructure, > > Ben Cooksley - 09.11.19, 00:49:49 CET: > > One of the things that was prepared as a result of the Sysadmin BoF at > > Akademy was a list of systems and services which we look after and > > provide to the community. > > > > Whilst individually all of the services seem fairly reasonable and > > maintainable, the cumulative number of them has created a situation > > where they limit our ability to reasonably maintain our services as a > > collective whole. > > I followed the discussion followed by this and your other mails about > that topic. And I am completely missing a very important thing in there: > > *Thank you*! > > *Thank you big time* to you and the other admins for all the work you do > to keep KDE infrastructure running smoothly. > > Your work often is a lot less visible than the next shiny feature inside > of Plasma or an application. It often happens in the background and may > not be always thanked for at all, just cause no one notices to what > extent it is your work that keeps all the services we take for granted > running so smoothly as I do. I know how it can feel as I did quite some > of similar work myself for some time. > > On top of that you and other admins responded to some requests of mine > often quite quickly and even when it was just about re-open and fill a > mailing list archive for kdepim / kdepim-users on own KDE's own > infrastructure or some spam here and there. You did that on top of all > the other work you have. > > So again, so that it really sinks in: > > *Thank you* > > > In addition to that I ask everyone who responds to the more detailed > mails to consider whether your answer will mostly mean even more work > for the admins or whether it would actually help to reduce some of the > workload. Please think a moment or two how you can make is easier for > the admins to ease reduce their workload instead of adding even more > work on top of it. > > I considered to offer some of my time to KDE admin work some times ago, > but so far did not do that step out of the fear that I would easily be > swamped by work then while leading an already very busy life and > struggling to achieve some of my most important goals. And knowing how > challenging it can be for me to say "no"… I rather did not offer help, > even tough I would consider myself qualified enough for this kind of > work, beyond a little collecting of some mails into an archive so far or > so. > > I see your mail as a call for help, a call to have your workload eased a > bit, Ben. I thought you would only be writing this in case you struggle > with the current workload. And I can easily imagine that you do. > > All I ask everyone for is some respect for that, some respect for the > often unseen work you admins do. > > So again: > > *Thank you!* > > I appreciate your work. Big time. > > Best, > -- > Martin > > > -- http://about.me/valoriez - pronouns: she/her
