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🦋 Problem Solving, a repo for handling problems that require review, deliberation and possibly debate
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Wanted: new Raku Infrastructure jack-of-all-trades #352

Open rba opened 1 year ago

rba commented 1 year ago

In spring 2019 I decided to jump in spontaneously when realised the official perl6.org website was down. And for me it was personally unacceptable, then if information from a community driven programming language is not publicly available, it's not existing any more. Quickly @maettu was convinced as partner to join to help out on the infrastructure side. And while relatively quickly it was clear that this based on a hardware issue with the main server, we have realised that far more went down during this hardware outage. Not only the public website, but many developer resources went offline. Together with help of many people, especially @moritz, @lizmat and @niner we have been able to reinstall the public websites back on the sponsored server of AtIKON (🙏). Other devs themselves did bring back the missing developer resources.

During 2019 many ideas where collected to improve the infrastructure. While some things went quite well, like setting up a central password store (thanks to 1password). Others like containerising the websites went only part of the distance. Luckily @patrickbkr made the whole way with rakubrew.org.

My family and my day-job keeps me busy most of my time. This ended up in the situation where we are now. I tried to keep things alive and to make sure other community members have the chance proceed, was my main goal during the last time. While I don't like to speak for @maettu, I feel he is suffering too in lack of time.

Now we need some fresh blood. Personally I hope someone will continue where we have left off. And new ideas are welcome! And I hope we find a team of two again. It's a good feeling when you know someone covers your back. Many thanks @maettu!!!

If you're interested, please let us know.

JJ commented 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for your service, willingness, and passion so far. I understand this perfectly.

2colours commented 1 year ago

Could somebody elaborate a bit on what this work covers? From what I can tell, this sort of activity was very much hidden from our eyes for the most part, at least I have barely come across any pointers about it. Perhaps this was unfortunate with regards to giving credit as well, but for now, it would be good to raise awareness for the supposed volunteers as well.

maettu commented 1 year ago

@rba did almost all of the work. Thank you for doing it all!

BloomingAzaleas commented 1 year ago

Agree with @2colours, some descriptive breakout of the tasks (daily, weekly, monthly,...) and skills required would be helpful. Sure there may be people with super jack-of-all-trades skills AND available time, but I suggest these people are rare. Also, as we see here, there is risk to operational continuity when there are only 1 or 2 volunteers. Smaller time commitments across a wider skills/people inventory (meaning a higher count of volunteers) would reduce the continuity risk of losing a volunteer. Coordination effort increases with people count of course, but coordination/project management is also a time-contributable skill. A descriptive breakout would help prospective volunteers identify skills niches and potential time commitments. For myself, it would be the utmost charity to say my hands-on skills are merely stale but gosh I know how to patiently herd cats toward the operational discipline of a business-critical IT service.