[HCoop-Discuss] Planning

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Adam Chlipala<adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:
> Derrick Brashear wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Adam Chlipala<adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Derrick Brashear wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>>>> Yes, I have offered a litmus test.
>>>>
>>>> I was not an expert. I was an undergraduate student, and AFS was not
>>>> open source.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'm perfectly willing to claim any level of personal admining
>>> incompetence needed to settle this.  I've been trying to pass off all
>>> admin responsibilities for a while; people who are interested in
>>> continued responsibilities can give their own answers.  The facts bear
>>> out that the people who have agreed to do admin work with HCoop are not
>>> willing to take the time needed to learn how to create and maintain a
>>> water-tight AFS set-up, despite the fact that we were very successful at
>>> maintaining a traditional singleton server for many years.
>>>
>>
>> Ok. We've established (what I consider) a sensible baseline for
>> comparison, then.
>>
>> Tell me what I can do (within reason; I am already 130% committed time
>> wise) to help.
>>
>
> I don't think anyone who is 130% committed already can do much to help
> here.  To keep using AFS, we would need someone who can commit to handle
> any issues that come up, by investigating the problems and implementing
> solutions directly on our servers.  Since we don't want to give too many
> people root access, this would need to be a person who is willing to
> accept general admin and support responsibilities for HCoop.

Indeed, in that scope I am useless. I already can't administer what I should.