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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:10:53AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > If I could afford to spend the more than just volunteer time on Infra, |
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> > yes, I'd love to have few full 40 hour weeks to put into cleaning up our |
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> > cfengine and puppet to where it's significantly easier to manage. |
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> The one thing I was trying to avoid doing was giving an impression |
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> that the infra team isn't busy doing work that helps everybody around |
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> here. |
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> You summarize the problem well here. You're too busy due to a labor |
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> shortage to do the sorts of things that would help reduce the labor |
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> shortage. |
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Of infra staff, in 2014 antarus left infra, and we gained dastergon |
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prometheanfire redlizard. bonsaikitten turned us down again, as he's |
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busy running the gentooexperimental infrastructure. |
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> I don't mean to trivialize the problem, either. Gentoo has a lot of |
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> donated infrastructure, and a decent amount of cash when you're |
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> talking about replacing hard drives and such. The problem is that we |
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> really don't have the kind of money it would take to take on even a |
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> single employee. |
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I've wondered in the past, about doing a Kickstarter/IndieGogo to pay me |
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for spending a month or two on Gentoo, based on the model of the very |
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successful Django kickstarter: |
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django |
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(there have been other open source kickstarters since then, but the |
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Django one was one of the first that delivered just open source |
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software). |
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If I wanted to do it full-time, for the cost of living (with my wife and |
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10 month old daughter) in Vancouver, at a bare minimum, I need it to be |
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at least $6000CAD/month before taxes. |
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Potential major projects for it, in a rough priority order: |
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- Get rid of cfengine |
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- Migration of services off some of our oldest servers |
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- Split-model Puppet (like Wikimedia) |
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- Projects Hosting (mostly repurposing 'kup', but needs some dev work) |
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- Split mail & dev.g.o |
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- eu.dev.g.o box (post-split of mail) |
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- Official Gentoo cloud images, from releng (because they'd make infra's |
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life easier too). |
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- List Archives |
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- Website revamp |
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Stuff that is NOT on the table (and why) |
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- Git migration |
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- We're actually just blocked on a specific new sponsor for more than |
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month now, they bought a nice new box, and they have to fix |
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something in their network. |
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This also needs to have a self-sustaining result, not an expectation |
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that it will be repeated in future. |
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-- |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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