I'd be interested in giving a small subset of the developers login accounts on the machine where wikipedia runs. This will enable people other than me to install the latest versions of the software, run update programs, and things of that nature. This will surely be beneficial if it works out, because I'm something of a bottleneck in the process.
Right now I'm thinking of Brion and Axel and Magnus, because they've contributed the most code and I've talked to them the most in email about technical stuff.
I don't want this to be a prestige thing, or for anyone's feelings to be hurt if I don't give access to them.
If we set group permissions correctly, I think that 'root' access is not necessary. I can still install new versions of PHP, or recompile MySQL, or things of that nature, from time to time as needed.
--Jimbo