Folks, Brion is Wikimedia's CTO. He just told you
that you just have to ask to
get access. So, ask!
I don't want root-access as I don't have the knowlege on how to set up
the osm-stuff. I have user-level access to cassini and for me as
developer that's really, really cool!
But I saw some people resign, who once were willing to do the job, like
Sven [1] or, in some way, Julian [2] or Aude [3].
As far as i can tell there are some people around that are willing to
help, but the feedback they get is very weak. I think the main problem
is giving root-access to someone unknown to wmf and this is perspicuous.
But aude e.g. did not even ask for root-acces, just for the permissions
to get postgres-user on cassini (see [4]).
To come to conclusion, are you, brion, willing to give sven, julian and
aude the permissions they want and are you sven, julian and aude willing
to help on setting up the systems? Then I hereby declare you man and
wife. :)
Peter
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2009-August/000189.html
[2]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2009-July/000177.html
[3]
https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-302
[4]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2009-August/000210.html