17:57 < wladek> so who would make the best 3rd admin?
17:58 < mindwarp> 1 and 2 being samble and you?
17:59 < wladek> what about yourself?
18:00 < mindwarp> i have no particular wish to have root, but i do find myself
fielding newbs in the channel with simple problems
18:00 < mindwarp> which i could easily solve if i had root
18:00 < mindwarp> or was in sudoers
18:01 < mindwarp> also in the past i have suggested the installation of this or
that
18:01 < mindwarp> and in some cases people liked the idea but nobody else
really had any motivation
18:01 < mindwarp> to actually get it done
18:01 < mindwarp> with root, i could have just done it myself and the others
would have just had to enjoy the results
18:02 < mindwarp> so dunno, perhaps i could be marginally more helpful that way
18:03 < wladek> i think you're the ideal candidate
18:03 < mindwarp> ideal? why's that?
18:03 < wladek> because you're presently non-idle most of the time
18:03 < mindwarp> ah
18:03 < mindwarp> that's about to change big time
18:03 < mindwarp> say end of january
18:03 < wladek> you have a good grasp of unix in general, from what i can gather
18:03 < wladek> oh yeah?
18:04 < mindwarp> yeah, planned exponential increase in my courseload
18:04 < wladek> hrmm
18:04 < mindwarp> i mean i'll have some free time still i hope
18:04 < mindwarp> but i'll have much more to do as well
18:04 < wladek> i think that should be the first requirement
18:05 < mindwarp> yeah i agree
18:05 < wladek> he doesnt necessarily have to be around all the time, but as
long as he checks in and could potentially put in a few hours
if a problem comes up
18:05 < mindwarp> but i think we may be missing some of the points that
photon-thug is bringing up next door
18:05 < mindwarp> he and i have been chatting about this
18:06 < wladek> why isn't he here anyway..
18:06 < mindwarp> the point is that there doesn't have to be a single extra
admin
18:06 < mindwarp> yeah we should invite him
18:06 < mindwarp> anyway there should be several more admins
18:06 < mindwarp> and the load on each doesn't have to be that big
18:06 -!- mode/#sd-staff [+o mindwarp] by ChanServ
18:07 < wladek> right
18:07 -!- mode/#sd-staff [-o mindwarp] by ChanServ
18:07 < wladek> but the first big hurdle is getting one liked minded admin in
place
18:07 < wladek> *like
18:07 -!- Topic for #sd-staff: Mindwarp is disappointed that Barack Obama
doesn't make him moist.
18:07 -!- Topic set by dasmi [~laylow@ip68-111-247-228.sd.sd.cox.net] [Tue Nov
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18:07 < wladek> hehe, infiltration
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18:08 < mindwarp> well ok maybe
18:08 < mindwarp> i'm not sure how best to address that
18:08 < mindwarp> because i guess i wasn't looking at it that way
18:08 < mindwarp> the way i see it we just need to persuade the current
holder(s) of root to share it around
18:09 < mindwarp> for the sake of shorter backlogs and easier maintenance
18:09 < mindwarp> and so if they give it to one they can give it to three
18:09 < mindwarp> but it can also be done one at a time
18:10 < mindwarp> ultimately we just want to avoid bottlenecks... look how busy
samble is. and every time some poor fuck with a
non-functional password comes here to complain, i'm supposed
to tell him to email samble?
18:10 < mindwarp> that is absurd
18:10 -!- photon-thug [~cortex@c-71-198-80-44.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined
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18:10 < mindwarp> i should be able to help him rather than passing the buck