[gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-09-06 23:59 UTC

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Robin H. Johnson posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2015 23:54:36 +0000 as excerpted:

> I've been travelling a lot the past month (Helsinki, LA, Seattle), and
> it's on my list of stuff to do (along with finalize and announce the
> migrated git history).

[grumble grumble, top posting, tho you just followed what you were 
replying to, but it still makes it all but impossible to quote proper 
context, so I only did one level deep]

This is definitely not a personal complaint as I know you're doing what 
you can and will get to it in due time, and I'm immensely grateful that 
we have you working on it at all and that the git switch did actually 
happen even if it seemed to be an instance of DukeNukem:Forever, but...

The above has me somewhat concerned.  Any time an individual has to make 
excuses for something as ultimately critical to an organization as 
finishing up the loose ends on the git switchover is to gentoo, the words 
"bus factor" loom large in my head.

Is it simply that while others can do it, you were the one who 
volunteered, as you could make at least enough time to get the basics 
squared away in a relatively immediate timeframe, and will do the rest 
later, but there's others who would have eventually (perhaps months, or 
even a year or two later) gotten to it were you to meet some misfortune, 
or is it really down to (singular) YOU, and there's reason to worry, not 
just because of that, but because of the inevitable overwork and burnout 
such a situation unfortunately tends to lead to?

IOW, is there something the council or foundation needs to do proactively 
here to ease a pressure point before something blows and it's reactive, 
or are there human backups in place and tested/ready-if-needed just as 
surely as are the server backups?

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