[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Martin> The regular admin tasks likely include stuff like this: > Martin> - the system is unavailable, bring it back to work > Martin> This is really the worst case, and a short response time > Martin> is the major factor in how users perceive the service > Martin> - the system is responding very slowly > > To all those people who have been moaning about needing 6-10 people to > administer the system, in my opinion these are the most important > reasons to have more than one person available to help. Python isn't > only used in the USofA. It has been very helpful to have > administrators scattered around the globe who were awake and alert to > handle problems with python.org when folks in the US were asleep. Of > course, spreading the load among several people helps with the other > tasks as well. > > As Martin pointed out in an earlier post, with only one person > actively administering Subversion (Martin), new requests for access > had to wait if he was away for an extended period of time.
This is true of many open source projects. I don't dispute that having 6-10 people to administer Roundup would not be good. I dispute that it is the minimum requirement to make a Roundup installation acceptable for Python development. Are bug-tracker configuration issues so critical that having to wait 48-72hrs to have them fixed is absolutely unacceptable for Python development? It looks like an overexaggeration. People easily cope with 2-3 days of SVN freezing, when they are politically (rather than technically) stopped from committing to SVN. I guess they can wait 48 hrs to be able to close that bug, or open that other one, or run that query. -- Giovanni Bajo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
