When will we have more ops in #ubuntu during the Australasian day?

[Martin Meredith]

However, if the majority of ops are in the SAME timezone, or similar
timezones, then this means that there is noone to deal with the Stuff in
the Timezones that are left out.

For example, lets take Australia & England.

11 hours difference (ish), so, assuming that an op in a timezone is
covering the channel between 9-5 their local time, this means the
following

UK: Covering what would be 20:00 - 04:00 Australian time
AU: Covering what would be 22:00 - 06:00 UK Time

This 1) Leaves a gap where noone is covering the channel and 2) means
that if, for example, there are only 2 AU ops (Which AFAIK there is -
Sarah and Melissa) - Then it gets a bit messy for them to just have to
deal with it. Which I think is the point.

While there may be some ops that are inactive, I don't think this is the
reason that there may be some issues. We need a suitable amount of
people to cover the Channel at all times - as it's always peak time
somewhere.

At the moment, as far as I'm aware - Most of our Ops are in USA/UK -
apart from a select few. We need more people around to cover the peak
times for the eastern sections of the world. Hobssee and elkubuntu
shouldn't have to deal with it on their own.


On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:31 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> John Vivirito wrote:
> > Most ops are left there because when !ops is called we may all go to it
> > but someone else might have already handled it. Example: i work on
> > Mozilla apps building/fixing/whatever the case may be and it keeps me
> > fairly busy but it makes me late to return to #ubuntu when called. now
> > most of the ops in chanserev list are there to help if ops are not
> > around (there are times i have found myself the only op around im sure
> > its not just me either.
> 
> And how many ops are not hanging out in that channel that are in the
> !ops command, or in the ChanServ access list?  How many ops haven't
> frequented the channel in 6 months? A year? More?
> 
> I'm just mentioning that house cleaning may finally be needed (has it
> ever been done?).  Of course, take the appropriate steps to ensure that
> diplomacy and democracy prevails, as well as the CoC, but I think it is
> in order, of not enough ops are there to respond to calls, yet the list
> is plenty long to handle it.
> 
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