[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Officers

[Elliot Lee]

Sorry, we went so over in today's meeting that I totally forgot about  
this.

I think having a list of roles with names next to them would be a  
good step.

I personally don't like the word "officers" because of the  
connotations of bureaucracy that it has for me, but the idea itself  
is sound, and I liked Jeffrey's comments about keeping it real and  
letting people do other things as they felt motivated. It's also more  
important to avoid locking people into particular roles because we  
are basically a bunch of volunteers, and getting tired of doing the  
same thing over and over is a bigger concern with volunteers than  
with employees.

Best,
-- Elliot

On Jul 19, 2006, at 14:40, Mike McGrath wrote:

> The infrastructure group is getting bigger and I think its time that
> we start examining whether we would benefit from officers in the admin
> group.  I don't want to create a high barrier to getting involved with
> the infrastructure project but at the same time right now everyone is
> trying to do everything and as a result sometimes stuff isn't getting
> done.  (ppc1 has over 200 updates that need to be done).
>
> If we got more fine grained with security we could allow people access
> to systems without giving them full root on all the systems.  For
> example it would be very easy to create a nagios group so multiple
> people could access and restart nagios without giving them root to the
> box and other boxes.  Some apps don't even need shell access to admin,
> otrs and mailman comes to mind immediately.
>
> I could see a use for the following officers:
> ticketmaster
> updates
> dba
> noc (nagios/cacti)
> accounting
> VCS
> external (someone who can coordinate with the other non-infrastructure
> teams on things)
>
> I'm thinking that officers should be limited to people that have been
> a part of the team for months and have a good record in the true sense
> of a meritocracy.  I'm also under the opinion that some systems could
> have multiple officers.  (for example I could very easily see Warren
> and myself as contacts for VCS).