Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stable-bot is down. Temporary? Forever? Can we have a contacts page for it?

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 4:57 AM Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> On 10/8/19 7:21 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > In any case, since many people *do* rely on it, maybe we should declare
> it
> > official? [+]
> >
> > And, if that's OK with both of you, move it onto infra hardware?
> >
> > Happy to sponsor both for the next council meeting agenda.
> >
> >
> > [+] At some point the one remaining whiner doesnt count anymore.
> >
>
> In the past, infra has been understandably hesitant to take on new
> services due to staffing issues.
>
> Additionally, I understand that the current infra design does not easily
> allow granular access control, preventing non-infra members from easily
> performing maintenance on individual services.
>
> Has this situation changed? I doubt infra want to take responsibility
> for the bot, and I don't fancy the hassle of trying to find people to
> poke things on my behalf.
>

Things have not changed. We don't need to run the bot, we just need some
clearer contact info for it IMHO.

I don't think the reliability of the bot is really that different from
official infra services, but it was unclear who owned it and so there was
confusion; and I think the confusion is the key thing we are looking to
resolve here.

-A

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