On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 23:31, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is nice to have someone directing all of the traffic, but I agree > that is too much to ask from one person. The team leader needs to have > some helpers to whom some of responsibilities should be delegated. The > helpers could do the work for each of their assigned areas and report to > the team leader the results. Suggestions of what might work better could > then be given by the team leader to the individual helpers. > > Observation: It is very easy to reply "+1" to making a person the team > leader to keep track of everything and everyone's progress. (Let someone > else do it.) It is much harder to take on the responsibility of leading > a specific topic area with persistence and diligence while only getting > guidance from the team leader. > > My experience with Jean's work goes back to OOo 1.1.x days. She does a > wonderful job of guiding others. But she has had to do too many things > for others that they were not willing to do for themselves. (She was the > one to do the most important review of Getting Started with Base that > someone else should have done.) > > Maybe we need a need thread in which people volunteer to head the > specific areas of LibreOffice. Perhaps this should be done first. Once > we have leaders there, then might be a better time to have a team > leader. After all, if we are truly a team, we ought to be doing our > part. > > These are my thoughts. > > --Dan
Dan, I couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you. One of the items I want to write up is what areas need people to take responsibility for, and what those people should do. Of course, someone else could start the list. Let's do it on the wiki. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
