Project documents
I know it seems at first like a lot of mindless paperwork, but it will serve to make us agree on what we're doing and how we're going to do it. I resisted all this at first, too, but the chaos of this brainstorming phase will kill us if it persists into design and implementation. I've got some project management documents online at: http://dev.perl.org/pm/ I'll be adding more and revising those I have over the next few weeks (excepting 20-30 Sep, when I'll be in England with dubious net access). This isn't my work, though, it's ours. If you don't agree with something, it's your responsibility to say so. We all need to read these, agree or suggest changes, and arrive at a consensus (or at least a decision :-). Please do so. Thanks, Nat
Re: Project documents
risks.html 1. Minimized by another culling phase after the RFC freeze 2. Minimized by the sub-working groups. You will notice that the discussions on the sub-groups are quite localized in people and discussions are limited. Some groups are noisy but what you are witnessing is an ongoing discussion trying to iron out the differences between ideas. 3. Why do you have to choose a team. Isn't this a volunteer effort. Not everyone is interested in every aspect of perl. Look at how different folks specialized in different aspects of p5. Would the old IBM Chief programmer team style be appropriate?[1] It is hard to have multiple people turning out a _single_ module. Easy to have multiple patches pushed but that first piece has to be of a single idea. The "Head Pumpkin" would turn out the initial stub, control flow, and control structures. and then could hand out different aspects as volunteers turn up or ask. The Head Pumpkins would then be responsible to handle inter-module negotiations. This would funnel the changes through a single responsible eyeball. And if the person is stubborn and wants his change in. Let him make the change and prove his method is better. And there is always Rule #1.[2] chaim [1] Are we going to keep the Ring Trilogy quotes around? This brought to mind "One ring to rule them, ..." [2] Yes, Alan that is passing the buck. But it doesn't hurt to have it in reserve. Think of Larry as Daddy and all the kids running over when he comes home, He did, No he did, No he, ...) -- Chaim FrenkelNonlinear Knowledge, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-718-236-0183
