On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Richard Ames <richard(a)ames.id.au> wrote:
The WMF is responsible for the overall operation of the list / list
service and there should be a named person in the hot seat. Who is that
person????
That is one of the few things that is a mystery to everyone really.
Operations are responsible for the technical running of the lists server
(so mailman processes, exim and technical issues that can go wrong such as
corruption, failures etc.) but are not responsible for the running of
lists.wikimedia.org as a service. In the past that has fallen to Community
Advocacy as they've given out list creation access and generally do
off-hand tasks when needed. Though they're not the owners it seems.
No one person or team is actually responsible, it just falls to who ever is
willing to work on certain things. Such as over the past few months, I have
worked with Community Advocacy to create lists by delegation and for the
past month, have worked with Operations on general technical maintenance
and moving/upgrading the service.
I will look at this however as it does seem wrong to have a critical
service where no one person or team has any 'responsibility' for it or
ensures its up time as a priority other than the fallback to Operations.
John Lewis