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Robin H. Johnson posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2015 23:54:36 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> I've been travelling a lot the past month (Helsinki, LA, Seattle), and |
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> it's on my list of stuff to do (along with finalize and announce the |
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> migrated git history). |
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[grumble grumble, top posting, tho you just followed what you were |
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replying to, but it still makes it all but impossible to quote proper |
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context, so I only did one level deep] |
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This is definitely not a personal complaint as I know you're doing what |
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you can and will get to it in due time, and I'm immensely grateful that |
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we have you working on it at all and that the git switch did actually |
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happen even if it seemed to be an instance of DukeNukem:Forever, but... |
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The above has me somewhat concerned. Any time an individual has to make |
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excuses for something as ultimately critical to an organization as |
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finishing up the loose ends on the git switchover is to gentoo, the words |
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"bus factor" loom large in my head. |
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Is it simply that while others can do it, you were the one who |
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volunteered, as you could make at least enough time to get the basics |
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squared away in a relatively immediate timeframe, and will do the rest |
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later, but there's others who would have eventually (perhaps months, or |
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even a year or two later) gotten to it were you to meet some misfortune, |
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or is it really down to (singular) YOU, and there's reason to worry, not |
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just because of that, but because of the inevitable overwork and burnout |
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such a situation unfortunately tends to lead to? |
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IOW, is there something the council or foundation needs to do proactively |
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here to ease a pressure point before something blows and it's reactive, |
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or are there human backups in place and tested/ready-if-needed just as |
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surely as are the server backups? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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