The aforementioned major deploy went out this morning. It went well. More than 5000 man-days culminated in a very smooth site rollout this morning. I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
Remember a few months ago, when I said that we had gone with SuSE instead of Redhat? Apparently, before we could sign a contract with Novell, Redhat turned around and told us “We want your business. We will match any offer Novell gives you.” So although nothing (still) has been totally resolved, it looks like we will be going with Redhat for our Linux needs. It’s been a long, wild ride, but it looks like we’ll soon finally have enterprise support for the roughly sixty servers under my domain.
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Congratulations, you should get a raise for putting in 5000 hours, have you even been at that position for 208 days? You must be very efficient.
It was a total of 5000 man-days across the whole company. There have been at least 10-20 people working on this project full-time for the past few months, and more than a few working since the project spun up last summer sometime. 5000 man-days is the equivalent of 80 people working 8 hours a day and 5 days a week for 9 months, so either the number I’ve been given is way off, or they’re including the suits downstairs who probably had a hand in the project.
I assume that your company has some women working there so the term “man-days” seems archane. Wouldn’t the terms “worker-days” or “personnel-days” be more accurate and inclusive? It would be nice for you to set a good example for your place of business by using inclusive respectful language when referring to your co-workers.
The meetings for this project were total weiner-fests. But yeah, person-days would be more inclusive. Sigh.