Hi everyone, On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 20:50:01 +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > That said, I do plan on decentralising darcs authority as much as I > can (the goal is to make the darcs team more robust and one day run > itself), so I will trust whatever you think is the best decision.
It just occurred to me that this message may have been out of context of most of you on the list, so with apologies for the lengthy message, here are some of my hopes for the new darcs team: Windows Czar ------------ To my great delight, Salvatore has volunteered himself for the position of Windows Czar... which means that we may have somebody to help us prepare darcs binaries for Windows after all (depending on what he thinks is the best timing) and also somebody to turn to when we accidentally break something on Windows. This is a pretty big step forward for us, it means that we may meet those objectives of catching darcs's Windows support up with our support for other operating systems. Thanks, Salvatore! Review Team ------------ Another experiment I am attempting is to distribute the role of Maintainer. Traditionally, when a new patch arrives on the mailing list, we hope that somebody will step up and review the patch on their own accord. This sometimes happens, and it's great when it does. If it does not happen on the other hand, the Maintainer will do the review (as the responsibility is ultimately his/hers). While this usually works, I think we can do a better job still, one which allows us to handle a higher volume of patches, and which helps more of us to pick up knowledge about darcs (thereby strengthening the team). This is where the Review Team comes in. The new model is that when an incoming patch will be triaged by the maintainer, who will request that somebody on the review team have a look at it. This makes the Maintainer role a little bit more like that of an Issue Manager and a little bit less of a de-facto Project Leader. Basically, I would like us to take some small steps towards decentralising authority in the darcs team (hence my remark to Salvatore). The Maintainer will still have the final authority over the patches and the responsibility to push them in. As Maintainer, I intend to provide mostly a cursory review and overview and trust the reviewer to do the job. As you can expect this is still somewhat centralised, and we can do more, but I think we should respect the darcs traditions of caution and gradual change. So let's start with this and see how it goes. Anyway, the current members of the Review Team are: - Eric Kow - Dmitry Kurochkin - Petr Rockai You can sign yourself up on the wiki: http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/DarcsTeam All skill levels welcome! (I'll try to adjust accordingly) Darcs Weekly News Editor ------------------------ On a final note, I would be interested to see if anybody would like to take over as Darcs Weekly News editor. The job is mostly automated, and should take no more than one hour a week. Many thanks! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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