+1, JV.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:54 PM, 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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
