I'd be interested in giving a small subset of the developers login
accounts on the machine where wikipedia runs. This will enable people
other than me to install the latest versions of the software, run update
programs, and things of that nature. This will surely be beneficial if
it works out, because I'm something of a bottleneck in the process.
Right now I'm thinking of Brion and Axel and Magnus, because they've
contributed the most code and I've talked to them the most in email
about technical stuff.
I don't want this to be a prestige thing, or for anyone's feelings to
be hurt if I don't give access to them.
If we set group permissions correctly, I think that 'root' access is not
necessary. I can still install new versions of PHP, or recompile MySQL, or
things of that nature, from time to time as needed.
--Jimbo