Hello,
Okay, so it's knives out is it? Fine. I have flame retardant underwear.
:-)
I know you want things to work smoothly, we all do. Believe me, the
admins are working their butts off to make it so, they work long days and have
been checking in on weekends too. I still see no reason for any personal
attacks, it is not necessary.
I will take responsibility for part of the server move - I think we all
could have done better, but this is the situation we're in, and long lectures
full of conjecture won't help much. Let's summarize the constructive criticism
instead.
1. Maemo.org DNS should probably be on physically separate networks,
with redundant servers worldwide. DyDNS can do this cheaply, there were other
suggestions as well.
2. The maemo.org repositories should be mirrored in the free software
community at places like Ibiblio or similar, to provide a measure of redundancy.
3. Whatever ISP is chosen to host the site should feel like a
stakeholder in the success of the maemo community. They should feel motivated
for things to work 24/7.
4. The community should be allowed to help with the infrastructure.
Perhaps some services should be entirely released to the community? Or maybe
start using community resources like the SuSE OBS?
5. Greater communication and transparency from the maemo staff.
If I have missed anything I am sure you'll let me know, in no uncertain
terms. ;)
And now for some return fire: patience is a virtue. This means that
throwing a temper tantrum on a mailing list gets you often branded as a
"poisonous person," to quote from your original link. That seems really
unnecessary since many of those on this list who are flaming have valid points
and obviously care about the community. The valid points come across when they
are delivered politely too, so I ask for that to be the default setting. We are
where we are, and being impatient won't change that.
Regards,
Jeremiah
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