[Box-Admins] The status of things

[David T. Lewis]

Ken,

As far as I am concerned you have gone above and beyond the call of
duty, and your efforts are very much appreciated. I hope things smooth
out for you on a personal level, but I assure you that any talk of
"shortcomings" is not warranted at all.

I also note that you have been asking for someone to step in for quite
some time, and if we as a community cannot muster the resource, that
is clearly no fault of yours.

Thanks,

Dave

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:03:21PM -0500, Ken Causey wrote:
> First I have to say that I'm sorry. I've clearly failed to provide the 
> level of service that the box-admins team leader should provide and that 
> I said I would provide.
> 
> The situation is that I have my own set of problems which I won't go 
> into detail about. But the sad reality is that I just can't seem to 
> summon the will or the interest or what have you to do what should be done.
> 
> I can monitor the status generally and when a problem does show up I can 
> often find enough interest in it to fix or provide feedback about the 
> problem but not always in a very timely manner.
> 
> I wish I could fix the situation on my own, but it has gone on long 
> enough now that it is just not realistic to expect that to happen. I 
> wish someone would appear who has an interest in the entirety of the 
> status of the Squeak online services. If such a person would appear I 
> think I would be able to work with them to get up to speed on the status 
> and plan and perhaps even their interest would increase my own. But so 
> far it seems like the best we can do is people who have an interest in 
> individual parts of the system. Ultimately you need at least one person 
> who does care about the complete set of services and has some high level 
> ability to monitor and diagnose issues that appear related to them.
> 
> I wish I had a solution and I'm sorry about my own failings in this 
> regard. I just don't know what I can do about it at this point.
> 
> Ken