Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-discuss - Re: [SM-Discuss] A last question for the candidates

sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Public SourceMage Discussion List

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Pieter Lenaerts <pieter.lenaerts AT telenet.be>
  • To: "sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] A last question for the candidates
  • Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:00:02 +0200

Op zo, 26-03-2006 te 22:54 +0200, schreef Flavien Bridault:
> Le vendredi 24 mars 2006 à 18:38 +0100, Flavien Bridault a écrit :
> > Hi people,
> >
> > My question comes a bit late, since the vote end in less than four days
> > now. I don't think I read anything about that far from here, but I will
> > try to do it quickly. :-)
> >
> > My concern is about the grimoire team management. Since I have been in
> > the team (half and a year iirc), the gurus are very "free", maybe too
> > imho. We do finally what we want, the only directives we have is our
> > roadmap [0].
> > We didn't have any general meeting since a while, I think because they
> > are quite hard to organize, so we didn't have any other directions.
> >
> > The grimoire team is the biggest team, and, at least imho, would need
> > some real management. For example, when I took the two graphics and
> > graphics-libs sections few weeks ago, I was very surprised to discover
> > that they were not yet BUILD_API 2 compliant, although they were
> > previously maintained. And frankly speaking it only took me two or three
> > hours to achieve that for both. So I wonder if the previous maintainer
> > really knew it was a priority ? BUILD_API transition had started for a
> > while... But maybe I'm wrong it is not a priority. Not even sure. Do you
> > know what I mean ? :)
> > That the kind of thing I would expect from a real team management.
> > Sometimes the TL could send a reminder to everyone/individuals to
> > remember the objectives, what should be done in priority. Maybe
> > something periodically, every month or something like that. A report of
> > what have been achieved and what should be done next. It is currently
> > different for sorcery or cauldron teams, because they have releases, and
> > these ones are the opportunity to make-up (I'm not sure of the english
> > term here, sorry... :-/ draw up the balance is better ?). In the
> > grimoire team, we don't have any marks in time, and the TL could be
> > there to prevent monotony...
> >
> > I know this is quite tricky, because all developers are volunteers, and
> > you can't really force them to do something. But it may at least spur on
> > people to fill some objectives, and maybe even put deadlines. Also for
> > the bugs, if he realizes that someone has a huge number of bugs, he may
> > help him by reorganizing its bugs and assigning a priority to each of
> > them.
> > I would also expect that the TL will keep everyone aware of all the new
> > great features in sorcery and spur on people to use them.
> >
> > Keep in mind this is my opinion, I really have any idea if any people
> > would like to see things change. I realize that I may ask a lot for
> > someone who is also a volunteer, and part of these objectives could need
> > the help of his assistant. I also don't want to blame Arwed, he really
> > have done a great job, is a great developer (and who takes care of awful
> > spells that few people would want to maintain ;-) ) and he is always
> > here to help me.
> > At last, Source Mage is my first and only open source project, I don't
> > have any idea of how other projects do.
> >
> > So, to sum up, Arwed, Seth, do you plan to change something about that
> > if you are elected ?
> >
> > Thank you both for your answers.
>
> A small answer would have been welcome... Even to say you don't plan to
> do anything and that I'm wrong.
> Anyway the vote ends in few hours now...

I was wondering about this too

>
> _______________________________________________
> SM-Discuss mailing list
> SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
--
Pieter Lenaerts
Sportstraat 27
9000 Gent

tel. +32485189222





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page