[Themaintainers] COVID-19 and Maintainers

[Hanlie Pretorius]

Thanks for the good wishes, and the same to you and everyone on the list.

Here in South Africa we are entering lockdown at midnight on Thursday.

As an example of how maintenance can be effected: Some council workers
have been working in our street for more than a week, replacing kerbs
and fixing the adjacent asphalt. Today (Thursday) they rushed to get
everything done before the lockdown and the result is poor quality
work. Not the end of the world, but a waste of time in my opinion. I
won't be surprised if they're back in a couple of months to fix their
rush job.

I expect non critical maintenance will not occur, creating a backlog
when people return to work. All in all not a good time for
infrastructure maintenance in my opinion. But perhaps it will need
less if it's not being used as much.

At least I'll have some time to maintain my own infrastructure :-)

Cheers
Hanlie


> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 09:20:57 -0400
> From: lee vinsel <lee at themaintainers.org>
> To: Themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: [Themaintainers] COVID-19 and Maintainers
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> Hi, everybody!
>
> We've been thinking about you all as well as all of the maintainers keeping
> our world going right now. Something we've seen before (Andy and Lee lived
> through Hurricane Sandy in Hoboken, NJ): disasters really highlight the
> centrality of maintenance and maintainers.
>
> We put up a quick blog post with some initial thoughts on how the outbreak
> relates to The Maintainers to get some discussion going (for those who have
> the time, energy, and bandwidth), but most of all, we want to say, "Hey,"
> and we hope you are doing well.
>
> http://themaintainers.org/blog/2020/3/24/covid-19-and-maintainers
>
> Much love,
>
> Andy, Jess, and Lee
>
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:21:54 +0100
> From: "M. Fioretti" <mfioretti at nexaima.net>
> To: themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] COVID-19 and Maintainers
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> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 09:20:57 AM -0400, lee vinsel wrote:
>>    Hi, everybody!
>>    We've been thinking about you all as well as all of the maintainers
>>    keeping our world going right now. Something we've seen before (Andy
>> and
>>    Lee lived through Hurricane Sandy in Hoboken, NJ): disasters really
>>    highlight the centrality of maintenance and maintainers.?
>>    We put up a quick blog post with some initial thoughts on how the
>> outbreak
>>    relates to The Maintainers to get some discussion going (for those who
>>    have the time, energy, and bandwidth), but most of all, we want to
>> say,
>>    "Hey," and we hope you are doing well.?
>
> "We would love to hear thoughts, questions, proposals, and
> provocations from any and all"?
>
> OK, and thanks. Here in locked down Italy I have already written
> plenty that, besides general interest, is also relevant for
> maintainers, or so I hope at least. Start from here, and then go
> through the other posts listed at the bottom, and the more feedback
> (and sharing) I get, the happier I am:
>
> http://stop.zona-m.net/2020/03/one-month-of-covid19-two-weeks-of-lockdown/
>
> Thanks, and stay safe, everybody.
>
> 	    	 Marco
> --
>
> M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com                   http://stop.zona-m.net
>
> Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
> software is used *around* you
>
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> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:46:40 +0100
> From: Bastien <bzg at bzg.fr>
> To: lee vinsel <lee at themaintainers.org>
> Cc: Themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] COVID-19 and Maintainers
> Message-ID: <87wo78r9tb.fsf at bzg.fr>
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> Hi Lee,
>
> thanks for sharing this interesting write-up, I've shared it on this
> forum (mostly french resources) :
>
> https://www.covid19-que-lire.fr/item?id=82
>
>> We've been thinking about you all as well as all of the maintainers
>> keeping our world going right now. Something we've seen before (Andy
>> and Lee lived through Hurricane Sandy in Hoboken, NJ): disasters
>> really highlight the centrality of maintenance and maintainers.?
>
> What strikes me is the fact that both the topics of maintainance and
> openness seem currently to gain awareness.  (Or maybe that's just me
> being obsessed by both.)
>
> Take care everyone,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>
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