<div dir="ltr">Well said Gerard!<br><br>Unfortunately, this is not a labs only problem. The entire Tech Ops team has the same problem. The latest quarterly report is not pretty.[1] Slide 12 gives the reasons why Ops is so far behind.[2] Essentially, not enough people for too many projects.<div><br></div><div>Bryan<br><br><br>[1] <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Tech_Ops/January_2015">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Tech_Ops/January_2015</a><br>[2] <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/WMF_TechOps_Q2_2014-15_Quarterly_Review.pdf/page12-800px-WMF_TechOps_Q2_2014-15_Quarterly_Review.pdf.jpg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/WMF_TechOps_Q2_2014-15_Quarterly_Review.pdf/page12-800px-WMF_TechOps_Q2_2014-15_Quarterly_Review.pdf.jpg</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Gerard Meijssen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com" target="_blank">gerard.meijssen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hoi,<div>Marc it is not you who are to blame. It is WMF, it is the chapters. As I have indicated quite often, I think Labs staff does its utmost but is understaffed and underresourced.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div> Gerard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 February 2015 at 21:30, Marc A. Pelletier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc@uberbox.org" target="_blank">marc@uberbox.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 15-02-04 03:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:<br>
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part of the problem is that staffing does not consider 24*7*7 support<br>
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I'd love to offer round-the-clock support, Gerard, but we simply do not have the staff to do this. Between the three of us, we cover about 12-14 hours 5 days a week (given timezones); we'd need to more than double our staff to realistically cover al 168 hours.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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