05-10-2022, 01:40 PM
Actually, we've tossed around this same idea quite a bit, @Dimster. One thing that I've came to a conclusion over -- no one person needs that much control over the project ever again. RC had the forums, wiki, twitter, youtube, podcasts, reddit, and who knows what else all under his singular banner. For about a day, once he started burning things, I had the same -- Luke had handed the Discord over to me. I'd purchased the server space and domain, and set up the wiki, repo, and forums... We'd went from one ruthless dictator to an unwilling Stevetator...
So, I quickly starting breaking things off and passing parts to other people. Spriggsy took over the Discord. RhoSigma has the wiki. The repo was turned into a Team setup, with DSMan (Matt) having equal say over it. Pete shares administrator rights to the forums here with me. No one person needs control over everything, and by passing individual pieces off to other individuals, it helps prevent any sort of catastrophic failure in the system if something happens to one person.
My personal health hasn't been the best for several years now, and I realize I'm on borrowed time. The Good Lord willing, I'll probably live through this year, (though no one can swear to that for certain,) but I doubt I'll be here to see another 15 years with the project. Everything needs to be compartmentalized, with a few trusted people handling each facet of the project, and then if something does happen to one of the members of the team, at most the community will need to replace that one singular facet of operations. We don't need to suffer from a case where "everything went down all at once", ever again!
We managed to recover as much as we did this time, thanks to the vigilance of the user base. Luke had a copy of the forums from where they'd migrated servers back in January. I'd grabbed a copy of the wiki for off-line use back around Christmas. Discord, we were lucky and never lost, as was the same with the repo. (Though enough people had cloned it at that point, it would've been useless to try and take it down anyway -- there was close to 100 clones, IIRC of the repo.)
Users kept us from losing a lot of data, samples, and code, when RC did what he did, and I hope that the user base remains ever vigilant and continues to clone/mirror the wiki and forums on a regular basis. You never know what life will bring, so it's always nice for other people to be ready to step up and pick up the pieces, if any one branch of our new tree ever happens to crack or break.
So, I quickly starting breaking things off and passing parts to other people. Spriggsy took over the Discord. RhoSigma has the wiki. The repo was turned into a Team setup, with DSMan (Matt) having equal say over it. Pete shares administrator rights to the forums here with me. No one person needs control over everything, and by passing individual pieces off to other individuals, it helps prevent any sort of catastrophic failure in the system if something happens to one person.
My personal health hasn't been the best for several years now, and I realize I'm on borrowed time. The Good Lord willing, I'll probably live through this year, (though no one can swear to that for certain,) but I doubt I'll be here to see another 15 years with the project. Everything needs to be compartmentalized, with a few trusted people handling each facet of the project, and then if something does happen to one of the members of the team, at most the community will need to replace that one singular facet of operations. We don't need to suffer from a case where "everything went down all at once", ever again!
We managed to recover as much as we did this time, thanks to the vigilance of the user base. Luke had a copy of the forums from where they'd migrated servers back in January. I'd grabbed a copy of the wiki for off-line use back around Christmas. Discord, we were lucky and never lost, as was the same with the repo. (Though enough people had cloned it at that point, it would've been useless to try and take it down anyway -- there was close to 100 clones, IIRC of the repo.)
Users kept us from losing a lot of data, samples, and code, when RC did what he did, and I hope that the user base remains ever vigilant and continues to clone/mirror the wiki and forums on a regular basis. You never know what life will bring, so it's always nice for other people to be ready to step up and pick up the pieces, if any one branch of our new tree ever happens to crack or break.