Or even informal roles.

For example: My employer doesn't use eCommerce, so I am not qualified to be 
responsible for that. But, I will gladly take on responsibility for areas of 
the project my employer uses - like Work Effort and Asset Maintenance.

I have been thinking about that lately - each contributor or committer could 
list the areas they feel comfortable with overseeing. It would be strictly 
voluntary - not a serious commitment or anything.

The reason I suggest it is because I recognize my own limitations - I can't 
review and comment on EVERYTHING. I have a feeling other committers are in the 
same situation. So, why not catalog our strengths, and assume responsibility 
for pieces of the project we feel confident with - instead of (right or wrong) 
feeling responsible for the whole project.

W could use the service provider Wiki page as a model - create a Wiki page 
where everyone advertises what areas of the project they feel knowledgeable in.

-Adrian


--- On Mon, 2/15/10, Christopher Snow <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Christopher Snow <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Rethinking our release strategy
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 10:16 PM
> As part of the release plan, could we
> create some formal roles responsible for certain aspects for
> each release?  i.e. people responsible for:
> 
> - migration from previous release
> - documentation
> - patch management
> - etc
> 
> 
> David E Jones wrote:
> > A release plan would be great. How are we going to do
> that, or what would it look like?
> > 
> > -David
> > 
> > 
> > On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Sharan-F wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> Hi 
> >> It sounds like there 's some confusion as to
> whether the release branches
> >> are being updated with bug fixes or not. I thought
> they were.
> >> 
> >> My focus has been pretty much been on OFBiz
> documentation and I find it
> >> very, very hard to document things as they are
> changing so fast. Features
> >> seemed to be added with no hint of documentation
> or even a spec.  The only
> >> way to find out how things work,  is trial
> and error and not everyone is
> >> interested in (or capable of) looking at or
> understanding the code. 
> >> Personally I'd like to see a yearly release plan
> so that we could at least
> >> ensure that we had enough time to make it truly
> stable and that the right
> >> documentation is in place to support the release.
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> Sharan
> >> 
> >> -- View this message in context: 
> >> http://n4.nabble.com/Rethinking-our-release-strategy-tp1555976p1556580.html
> >> Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at
> Nabble.com.
> >>     
> > 
> >   
> 
> 



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