Hello,
At Tuesday 05 February 2013 15:27:24 DaB. wrote:
>  wasn't thinking about a paid job, but harvesting the vol-
> unteer potential of the toolserver usership. 

AFAIK the WMF accepts only paid persons anymore.

But if the users would like to help, they can it even now: Update the pages in 
the wiki, write a patch for cron, add rules to puppet and help to clean it up, 
help newbies in the IRC and JIRA, add nagios-rules, prepare the switch from 
jira away (or find its problem), help Merl with the SGE, help Danny with the 
dumps, help Kai with OSM – and there are many more things.

I have no problems with more roots (heh, if there are enough, I can leave 
;-)). But beside the formal problems (WMF and WMDE), there is also the problem 
that to incorporate a new roots needs a lot of my time – and if the new root 
becomes inactive short time later my time was wasted. River appointed a few 
users to roots over the time, but I'm the only one left and most of my 
"colleges" were never very active.

So in a nutshell: If you like to help the TS: Do it. If you need a special 
right and I know you, ask me and I will see what I can do. If you need to 
become a root and are SURE to stay, fight with WMDE and WMF (and me) and if you 
are successful I will show you how deep the rabbit hole goes ;-).

Sincerely,
DaB.


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