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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