From what I've read in the article, I understand that when something happens to the server during the night hours in the US, new volunteers will follow up on the problem.
What I am interested about is whether there is any other work to be done even when there are no problems.
@saki We’re mainly looking for someone who can login and restart the services if they appear to be down, or troubleshoot the queues if they appear to be full or slow. @ian might be able to describe it better than me.
@ramsey@saki The immediate need is follow-the-sun coverage for when stuff is broken, which it usually isn't. Mastodon upgrades somewhat fall into this, but mostly fall into US daytime hours so that's not really the sore spot either.
There's also a queue of things I'd like to clean up architecturally, but those items tend to benefit from being able to overlap time zones, so kinda the opposite of the incident reaponse need.
@ramsey@saki but yes, "the system is sick, nudge some leverage to make it not sick" on restarts/queue management is the implementation level of what's currently lacking when I'm asleep or AFK.
I understand, based on that, it seems like someone with server knowledge would be the right fit for the job.
I thought I might be able to help out since my time zone(UTC+9) is probably pretty rare here, but if there's someone else who's more qualified, that would be better. I do have some knowledge about servers, but I probably can't compete with the experts.
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