On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070316 14:35]: > > > How would other candidates avoid dropping topics like this? > > > > The only way you can do that is by actively asking people to produce a > > report when they said they'd do so. > > that sounds to me like you wanted to continue with "but you cant > do thatas they are all volunteers and you cant push them" or so. > could you elaborate? were you in the position to push people to > do something in debian, and how did you do it? how was your > success rate?
You can't "push" people, you can only "direct" them in a direction that they have nothing against. Some people offered help for Alioth and I could successfully direct them so that their work matched mostly what I would have done myself. Others tried to impose their views and we haven't achieved anything together. Inside the Alioth team itself, I tend to defer gforge specific issues to Roland, so I'm sometimes poking him into doing some specific work. It always looks like a gentle question "Would you have time to work on X ?" or "Have you noticed X ? Do you think that you can do something about that sometimes this week ?" or "Can you take a look at your assigned high priority support request, there are some easy items that I would really like to get rid of". It tends to work quite well. Roland is a very good team player. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
