On May 7, 2014 11:04:38 PM CEST, Charlie Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > >John, please don't cross-post to lists. It likely causes a lot of work >for >the list moderators. I'll keep my reply to just the discussion list. >
Sorry, and normally I wouldn't, but as mentioned it is difficult to get to many of our users and I wanted to try and get the message to as wide an audience as possible. >On Wed, 7 May 2014, John Crisp wrote: > >> Ian has mentioned the lack of core developers before, and we really >need >> to address this quite urgently. >> >> A few of the options I can see....... > >Please be sure that you have read the classic "The Mythical Man-Month" >by >Fred Brooks. Wikipedia tells us its central theme is that "adding >manpower to a late software project makes it later". > >Be careful what people you add and what tasks you ask of them, and also >of >the people who will need to mentor and monitor them. > Wikipedia... Ah the font of all that is true ;-) But I'll take a read anyway. Point made, and taken, but it isn't a solution, particularly in the long term, and that's what we need.... I was merely trying to point out the predicament, and some ideas for debate. We can indeed say 'that's a bad idea' but more importantly we need some positive and constructive ideas on how we CAN get more core developers either short or long term. If paid for devs are out, we have to look to our users, (many of whom are undoubtedly quite experienced) but how do we communicate with them and get them more involved ? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail [email protected] Searchable archive at http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/
