[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Should we have a systems administrators list?

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

I'm neither a +1 nor a -1 on this topic.  What I would like to say relative
to this topic, however, is that I hope people will step out on a limb and
put their questions and comments out there one way or another.  At the
conference, I heard from many people that they were reluctant about posting
for one reason or another.  Generally these ideas revolved around
insecurity of some kind.

I can imagine a lot of overlaps between issues related to development and
sysadmin and if everyone is really okay with all things technical, it seems
better to keep all the useful info that will pass through the list in one
place.  I want the devs to know if there is something that the sysadmins
are struggling with...for example.  And often a developer will have the key
to a problem that a sysadmin is facing.  So I guess I'm leaning more to the
Ben camp on this.

I would like to encourage us all to do a better job of encouraging everyone
to use the mailing lists and be very careful about the way we interact with
each other.  I'd like us to develop a Code of Conduct...I believe Jono
suggested such a thing and it started with something along the lines of 1.
Don't be a jerk.  Perhaps we could flesh that out!  I'm thinking we could
modify our Communications Guidelines with our Code of Conduct, if we could
develop one.  We'll also update it with info about our new lists and
perhaps add some language to encourage everyone to use them more freely.

Lori




On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 5/1/2012 12:29 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote:
>
>> But, as was said in IRC today, whatever gets folks talking and sharing...
>>
>
> And I'm consequently a mild +1 for the original proposal.
>
> There is nothing in open-ils-dev's remit that should forbid or discourage
> discussion of any technical topic, including system administration.
>  Nonetheless, if there is active interest in a new forum, I would rather
> that we let it run as a mindful experiment under the Evergreen banner
> rather than risk the discussion not happening at all or taking place
> elsewhere.  If a sysadmin list gets little traffic, it is easy enough to
> close it, just as it would be easy to create it in the first place.  If it
> seems to be wandering into the wheat fields (the land of silos, natch), we
> can work together to draw it back into the fold.
>
> However, I would like to riff off a comment that Dan Scott made on IRC
> earlier today: if a sysadmin list gets created but folks start "answering"
> questions with the response "You're on the wrong list!  Go away!", I would
> immediately move to collapse *all* Evergreen project into open-ils-general.
> ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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>
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