more core devs needed...

To clarify: fixing most problems on the server is a job for Licho or possibly Histidine. GoogleFrog and myself are not necessarily competent to do anything more than diagnose the problem, if that.

Today's issue happened to be a problem which has happened before, and we have put together the access permissions and knowledge required for me to solve it (today was the first time this has been done in anger, though thanks to Licho for helping with a hiccup at the end).

So do go on pinging me for such problems, but there is a reasonable chance that I am going to have to escalate it further.

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Responding to the actual post: it maybe makes more sense to think of this as a "server admin" job rather than a "core developer" job. This affects both the skillset and the trust required. The Zero-K team and community does not have to implicitly trust somebody's judgement or competence very much for them to submit publicly-viewable code to the game/lobby/server. Quite a bit of trust is required that somebody with server access will not (through malice, overestimation of their own abilities, or anything else) make a mess of the database etc. in a way which would be difficult or impossible to mend.
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