On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:45:18PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
We don't need to sit and chat. We need *code* and we need a second server to divide the "must-do-fast" web work the and "chug-chug-chug" database labor.
The code issue is mostly a matter of focus: one or two developers is probably sufficient to keep the codebase up to date, but neither Brion nor I are focused on that right now.
So while Brion has issued a call for coders, that could be answered in other ways: for example, if a good admin stepped up to take some of admin tasks Brion is currently swamped with, he might be more free to code (assuming he's interested, which is not a given either). I've chosen to focus more on long-term goals because like Brion I was expecting hardware to bail us out in the short term. If that's going to be delayed, then I can put off things like testing file systems and focus on caching and tuning.
I'm certainly willing to help out here. I'm not in SoCal, but I should be able to help out with most administrivial tasks. I'm going to be able to help out a much more with tuning at a file system/OS/Apache level than I will be at a PHP/SQL level.