+1 On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
> +1 > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 18:54, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > Most of you already know Guillaume Lerouge since he's been active on > > these lists. Guillaume is interested and willing to act as our first > > OSS Product Manager. This is not a role that exists in many OSS > > projects. Actually I've never encountered it before but I can see > > value in it and I think we should recognize this role in the same > > manner that we recognize the role of Committer. > > > > See some rationale here: > > > http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/05/02/why-product-management-is-open-sources-fatal-flaw/ > > > > So I see Guillaume's role as: > > * Monitoring the lists for users requests/needs > > * Talking to people who implement XWiki out there in the wild, in > > companies and see what their needs are > > * Monitoring the enterprise wiki landscape for new features we should > > have > > * Comparing XWiki with other wiki engines out there > > > > Guillaume should provide us devs with visibility on the most wanted > > features and help us prepare our roadmaps. > > > > Regarding votes I propose that we has the same binding votes as > > Committers (obviously since Guillaume is not technical he probably > > won't vote on tech matters). Example of domain where he could vote on: > > UI decisions. > > > > This is what Guillaume has already started doing for some time but > > we've never really voted him in this role so I propose to fix this now > > and make this role official. > > > > Here's my +1 > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > PS: This doesn't mean that any of us shouldn't do this too. Quite the > > opposite. It just means that Guillaume is willing to spend a lot of > > his time working on this. > > > > PPS: Disclaimer: Guillaume is working for XWiki SAS. For more details > > on the XWiki project and XWiki SAS see > > http://massol.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWikiSASAndOpenSource > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
