[Tilesathome] Tiles at home unavailable all Monday

[SteveC]

On 24 May 2007, at 17:38, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> On Monday, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>> What about this deal: I will ask OJW if he makes me one of the
>> deputy server admin for tiles at home, and in return YOU will do
>> the same ;-) that way, you will not be able to complain in the
>> future as you are partly responsible. Sounds great, doesn't it?
>
> Hahaha, you don't get it, do you?  It sounds great.  But it will
> fail.  And why?
>
> It was after trying to work together with OJW and for a while
> trying to get a status feedback from him, that suddenly he
> announced he was leaving for the day with the system inoperable,
> that I asked him if anybody else could help to fix it, and I got
> no answer.  That's what made me quit trying to get the t at h server
> system running.  It's a people thing, not a technical problem.
>
> OJW is a good programmer, I've read his code, it works mostly.
> But he's not acting as if he was providing a service.  Incoming

I was going to let this email pass by, thinking "phew, lars is mad at  
someone else not me"... but this is too easy - Yes he's providing a  
service but the price is a huge 0 in any currency, with no service  
level agreement.

> requests to view, update and upload tiles are dropped on the floor
> and it doesn't appear to *hurt* him, he doesn't suffer from this.
> He doesn't make it a priority to fix this.  The little time that
> he has, he appears to spend on other things.  Including the time
> when I was waiting for his feedback.  He wasted that.  And he's
> most reluctant to let anybody else help, not to say paranoid.

You're not his dad, you don't get to tell him what to do :)

have fun,

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