Dear darcs users, I would like to announce a new official position within the darcs team, that of Issue Manager. The role of the issue manager would be to ensure that all incoming bugs are triaged and that old bugs are reviewed regularly, basically assuring that every bug on the tracker is moved into some sort of resolution state.
Up to now, our relationship with the issue tracker has been somewhat informal: somebody notices that bugs are growing stale, decides to do something about it... but then real life imposes constraints and the person wanders off. We have been lucky so far that somebody has always noticed the pile-up and decided to intervene for things got too bad, but I think it would be healthier for the community if we stopped leaving this to chance. To tighten this up, we shall now be treating the Issue Manager as an discrete darcs team job. The issue manager has the responsibility of * making sure that new bugs are responded to in a timely manner, and that users get whatever advice they need to get unstuck * ensuring that issues move steadily to some sort of resolution state * regularly reviewing issues on the bugtracker, occasionally bringing issues back to our collective consciousness when the need arises * finding a successor when the time comes for he or she to move on to other things Every darcs developer is encouraged to help out with the issue tracker, but we need to have somebody to whom the ultimate responsability falls, for making sure these things happen. Naturally, this is a kind of job that likely requires a lot of delegation, delegation which the Issue Manager is specifically empowered to do. The first person to fill this post on a official basis will be Thorkil Naur. Lately on the bug tracker I have taken to marking bugs with a need-volunteer request (with a specific set of instructions to help reproduce a bug). On several occasions, Thorkil Naur has acted as this volunteer, lending us his time, and going to great lengths to make sure we can reproduce errors and work out their cause. I think Thorkil will be a good fit for this role, and appreciate his accepting these responsibilities. Many thanks and good luck to Thorkil! Eric P.S.: In a future message, I will be asking for a communications manager, or at the very least, an editor for Darcs Weekly News. Please get in touch with me if you may be interested. See: http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/DarcsTeam -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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