Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> If I could afford to spend the more than just volunteer time on Infra,
> yes, I'd love to have few full 40 hour weeks to put into cleaning up our
> cfengine and puppet to where it's significantly easier to manage.

The one thing I was trying to avoid doing was giving an impression
that the infra team isn't busy doing work that helps everybody around
here.

You summarize the problem well here.  You're too busy due to a labor
shortage to do the sorts of things that would help reduce the labor
shortage.

I don't mean to trivialize the problem, either.  Gentoo has a lot of
donated infrastructure, and a decent amount of cash when you're
talking about replacing hard drives and such.  The problem is that we
really don't have the kind of money it would take to take on even a
single employee.

Apologies if my email came across as kicking you guys when you were
down.  It was really more about trying to point out that we have a
problem.

-- 
Rich