Hello all,
after our discussion about more roots I got the impression that for some of
you the topic of more roots is quite urgent. To be honest I feel not very well
to just add a few roots at the moment.
So I thought a compromise and created a new user-group: Operators [1].
Operators have a limited set of advantage rights – enough to help the roots
and do every-day-jobs, but not enough rights to have access to sensible data
(so no approval from WMDE or WMF is necessary).
For testing I gave operator-status to the following people: Merl, who manage
SGE already, Danny_B, who manage the user-store already, and Platonides who
volunteered. There will be more in the future, but at the moment these 3 will
do.
In the new group the operators can collect experience while helping the users
and the TS. And the roots can see who could get root-status someday and who
not. The group is also a good place for users who like to help the TS, but can
not invest the same amount of time like a root.
So let's see if this solution works.
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1]
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Operators
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