jenett, what proportion of what you have said to me is things you think I did not know already? I respect that you may be trying to provide context for other people who come across this knowing less context. However, I do already know nearly everything you said. And it sounds like you think I am saying: if she is bored, there's coding work she could do. No, I'm not saying that.
There are other paid employees, but with specific tasks - partly to make sure there's always a backup for security issues or other urgent needs. (And I think right now also all part time though I might be wrong there.)
The Staff page does say there is a backup sysadmin on call, yes, and strongly implies he's part-time.
I could say more but I also want to check: are you open to someone criticizing Dreamwidth's business practices, and talking about what the owners could be doing better given their current constraints? If not then of course this line of conversation isn't going to be productive.
For instance: I was indeed already aware that there are long-term health issues that have kept Denise's work availability extremely low for several years, as she has mentioned, for instance, in explaining why the suggestions queue is backlogged. That is a reason I was surprised to see that she had applied for a job that would likely be a full-time job. I could speak further about the boredom stuff and so on, how your reading and mine might differ here, but I only want to do that if you are actually open to me trying to talk in a nuanced way about what strategic decisions Dreamwidth's owners could be making given the difficulties of Denise's availability and (sometimes) boredom.
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jenett, what proportion of what you have said to me is things you think I did not know already? I respect that you may be trying to provide context for other people who come across this knowing less context. However, I do already know nearly everything you said. And it sounds like you think I am saying: if she is bored, there's coding work she could do. No, I'm not saying that.
The Staff page does say there is a backup sysadmin on call, yes, and strongly implies he's part-time.
I could say more but I also want to check: are you open to someone criticizing Dreamwidth's business practices, and talking about what the owners could be doing better given their current constraints? If not then of course this line of conversation isn't going to be productive.
For instance: I was indeed already aware that there are long-term health issues that have kept Denise's work availability extremely low for several years, as she has mentioned, for instance, in explaining why the suggestions queue is backlogged. That is a reason I was surprised to see that she had applied for a job that would likely be a full-time job. I could speak further about the boredom stuff and so on, how your reading and mine might differ here, but I only want to do that if you are actually open to me trying to talk in a nuanced way about what strategic decisions Dreamwidth's owners could be making given the difficulties of Denise's availability and (sometimes) boredom.