Summary: 6 +1, no 0, no -1
Welcome as a "OSS Product Manager" for the XWiki project! Thanks -Vincent On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Vincent Massol 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
