I was thinking the other day how useful and wonderful PM is. That made me wonder how much maintenance time goes into the site? Specifically, I'm interested in how much time is spent by vroom and the everything crowd (if any) and how much by other volunteers (e.g. gods). I'm less interested in the develpment of new features, and more interested in maintenance. Of course, if any developers have input, that'd be wonderful, too.

I'm asking partly because I was wondering about the viability of a PM-style site for non-techies.

--traveler

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Re: How much maintenance time for PM?
by marinersk (Priest) on Apr 17, 2003 at 16:19 UTC
    It wasn't until I got to the end of your message that I realized you meant "Perl Monks", not "Preventive Maintenance".
    :-)

    Stats regarding administrative work -- even if a bit of a wag -- would be interesting, I agree.

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      I'm humored a bit that someone was irritated sufficiently at that to downvote it from zero.
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        Hee!

        Could you at least tell me why you're downvoting these nodes? Otherwise I have no idea what it is you think I'm doing wrong.

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Re: How much maintenance time for PM?
by zby (Vicar) on Apr 18, 2003 at 08:39 UTC
    I'd like to know if there is somwhere available the discussion that preceded the creation of the Monastery. Some time ago I tried to generate a general discussion about colaboration/community software in Collaborative Media, but did not receive much input.
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Re: How much maintenance time for PM? (none)
by tye (Sage) on Apr 21, 2003 at 15:02 UTC

    pair.com does maintenance. The gods try to keep things such that they don't have to do maintenance and now they mostly don't do any. We let other groups do it (Friar, editors, power users, SiteDocClan).

    Although I don't speak for the gods as a group, I do know that several of us try to review/apply patches submitted by pmdev and try to come up with a new poll every couple of weeks. And every so often some problem comes up.

    There's always room for more work to be done, but things limp along well enough most of the time.

    The gods are also members of all of the other groups above so you'll see them doing those kinds of work as well.

                    - tye
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