[WBEL-users] About WB maintainers

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:23, Vicki Reeves wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > John Morris is basically the only maintainer for WBEL.  If John were to
> > decide tomorrow to stop doing WBEL, it would be very easy to take WBEL
> > and continue it.  Someone (or many people) would do that ... and even if
> > they didn't CentOS or TaoLinux would be easy to convert to.
> 
BTW, to expound just a bit.  The reason it would be fairly easy to do
(have someone else take over WBEL ... if John and the Library were to
stop) is that John has documented his process, provide several scripts,
and discussed via this and the devel mailing list exactly how to do it.

> Johnny, thanks for doing a great job of explaining the options if John 
> and the library drop out of the WBEL project.  The major great thing 
> about open source is that the code is OPEN - it's right there in the 
> open for anyone to branch off with another project.
You are welcome.
> 
> The Beauregard Parish Library has been 'in buisiness' since 1947.  We 
> are a public institution and WBEL is vital to our operations.
> 
That's good enough for me :)

> My personal prayer is that we can keep John happy right here until 
> retirement.  If that does not happen, we hope that we can continue to 
> work with him on WBEL where ever he goes.  But if he decides to drop 
> WBEL, chances are good that whoever takes on the GIGANTIC task of 
> filling his spot here at the library will be expected to keep the WBEL 
> project going.
> 
That's good enough for me too :)

> As far as John's vacations go, he has left good instructions for me to 
> rebuild under most situations.  I've actually done one rebuild under 
> John's supervision.  I'm in training for the other situations.  Our plan 
> on this vacation is for him to rebuild if he was at a spot where that 
> was possible - as you may have noticed, John likes to burp his own baby. 
>   At this stage of the project, I agree that it is a good thing. 
> However, if it is an essential (read security risk) rebuild and John 
> cannot get to the resources to handle it, our plan is for me to do it.
And, if there were any problems and John was not available (people do
need a vacation ;) ... even computer guys like us who don't really
work), then there are plenty of people who would (and have) offered any
assistance necessary to get the problem solved.

Johnny Hughes
HughesJR.com