On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:01:45PM +0100, Nic wrote: > More people helping savannah means less work for all of us and more > and larger loads. It can't be a bad thing.
What could help is some people only answering support requests. That wouldn't be much work and wouldn't require much time from us. The moderation of projects should only be for a couple of people as it is a hudge responsibility. See my other mail for that. > I agree with that. But maintaining the GNU machines is a much more > delicate job than maintaining savannah. The GNU machines have "real" > walking and talking users that they must serve, as well as projects > like savannah. Trust is therefore extreemly important. I think running and maintainning Savannah is at least even delicate. Hosted Projects: 1,851 - 247 GNU - 1,573 non-GNU - 31 www.gnu.org Registered Users: 20,017 Of course not everybody that is registered or registered a project uses Savannah. But it wouldn't be fun if Savannah would go down and all those users would would start complaining... I can already see it on Slashdot: Savannah goes down and takes X projects down with them. > > - Some hardware. One year ago, I noticed that before the end > > of this year we were probably running out of disk space. To > > face the situation, I sent a bunch of mails and I moved some > > rather unused data to a temporary location. > > Since then, I never received any answer about that and know > > we're going to run out of disk space soon or later. > > I agree with this as well. In the short term an extra disc or two > wouldn't go amiss. Like I said, we are still waiting for an answers of that... > It's a terrible risk Mathieu, to run a system with this few > people. If you were taken ill now could Rudy take over? No, he's busy > with his exams. Could I take over? No, I just don't have that kind of > time. I do think Loic or Jaime could jump in. I could too, but only half an hour a day. This is enough to do 'some' moderation, but I see your point. > It's not a bad system. I'm not critising the savannah code or the > marvellous work you and all the other savannah hackers have done. But > there is room for improvement. As a fledgling savannah hacker > (without a lot of time) I feel the need for more tools to monitor the > situation. With such tools I would feel confident enough that I could > manage savannah on my own for a week, even with my limited time. Sorry I can't agree with that, or it could be that I don't get what your are saying. To administrate (moderation, support requests, bugtracker) Savannah we have all the current tools. The administration in itself is not a big problem. We have may not forget that we are dealing with people. All moderation done could be done easily if the people would read our guidelines or our comments. That takes up most of the time: say two to three or more times the same to a user till he gets it. Or till he finally does what you asked him. (And is not a question of us saying/asking it the wrong way.) -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web page http://www.webworm.org GNU/Linux for schools http://www.nongnu.org/glms Savannah hacker http://savannah.gnu.org _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers