[theforum] movement for redesign
Judah McAuley
judah at wiredotter.com
Mon Aug 11 21:13:20 CDT 2003
David Kaufman wrote:
> regardless, it seems sensible to have such a failover site on a different
> box, on a different network, so that if the main site's box or network goes
> haywire (or if Jeff gets hit by a bus and no one else has the access
> privledges + know-how to step in) the backup can become the frontup in a
> hurry, by David just punching the big red "press only in emergency" DNS
> button.
Just so everyone knows, the situation isn't quite as bad as it might
seem. I have access to weo and have done enough development with Jeff
that I feel I could step in if necessary. It would suck to have to do
it, of course, because I didn't do the original coding, but I know
Jeff's development style well enough to feel that I could deal with
emergency situations. I also believe that Morgan has access to weo now
(I could be wrong) so there is another non-Eugene person in case Eugene
gets nuked but somehow the hosting facility gets spared.
That being said, I'm still very much in favor of multiple people being
in charge of all the critical points of evolt. Truly distributed
development in a community as large as ours is a holy grail. I'm not
sure what the best we can hope for is. But I'm all in favor of giving
it the best shot we can, regardless of whether its in php, asp, cf, or
more likely, a combination of the above. But getting the organizational
structure together to accomodate and encourage the multiple,
interrelated development branches is going to be a heck of hurdle. Just
try to remember how difficult and new this is as we figure this whole
thing out.
Judah
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