I thought about mentioning automation because I don't really think it's a good idea in this case. What's important here is often tiny details and I know from experience that regularly emailed reports that are much the same all the time get very little scrutiny.
The fact that you have to do something to get the information, I believe, causes you to look more closely.
Also, my summary here is a bit simplistic since I gloss over the variations that occur when I think I have found something out of the norm. This happens regularly but it's rarely anything worthy of note once I look; but I have to look more closely to know. And how to look more closely varies considerably based on what is found.
The human element is essential in my opinion, until we achieve hard AI goals anyway.
Ken
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Box-Admins] My daily rituals (was RE: Welcome Steve and Casey) From: Steven Elkins sgelkins@gmail.com Date: Sat, February 05, 2011 4:37 pm To: Squeak Hosting Support box-admins@lists.squeakfoundation.org
No, I don't take it as directed at me. I think it's important to to say what I have time to do. If it isn't enough, fine, no worries. I can commit to 10 minutes every few days. What I can't promise is that if there's a problem, I'll always have time to investigate and/or fix it. Often I would be checking just before leaving for work.
Thanks for the summary of responsibilities. A lot of it sounds like a job for a script run via cron (or whatever), with saved reports and/or email to this list.
Cheers, Steve