Hi Damien, > It appears clearly that since a few months I can dedicate less time than > before to Ekiga. During the first 5 to 6 years of the project, I was > dedicating all evenings to the project and nearly all week-ends, fully.
Thanks for all your dedication over the years. I've been using ekiga for years and absolutely love it! > It is now impossible for me to continue developing at that pace. If we > organize things in a clever way, I think it will not be a problem. My > intensive work probably hide a few organization problems. > > We now have a few very high quality contributors: they help the project > move forward will less "devotion" from myself. > > The purpose of this e-mail is to identify the areas where people can > help and how we should work. But before identifying those areas, I would > stress on the fact that my wish is to release often, but with only a > limited set of new features, that are well-tested. We have seen in the > past that we had worked on many new features, half-finished, and that it > was hard to stabilize them before doing a release. I don't want this to > happen. > > Here is the list of tasks I have identified. > > a) Reorganization of the WEB service (ekiga.org + ekiga.net) : it is a > much required work to give the feeling of a united and well thought > service. We need designers for that task. > > b) Reorganization of ekiga.net services : more stability, more features. > I can take care of that myself, but external help would be great. I can assist from this side of things. I'm a Systems Engineer / Technical Architect by trade and this is what i do for a living. > c) Accounts support : we receive many e-mails of people wanting to > remove their account or wondering why it does not work. They are not > answered anymore. We need somebody to help with that. > > d) Development : we need more developers. Eugen is handling bugzilla and > patches. Julien is coding a lot. Michael is working on the WIN32 version > which is nearly as good as the Linux version. More people like all of > them should join the Ekiga project and help improving it. > > e) Documentation : Yannick has been managing this since a few years > nearly alone. Help is welcome. > > f) User Support : We all do user support at some level. When we do user > support, it means we can not dedicate time to our other tasks to make > the software progress. More people working on user support should join. > Perhaps a forum instead of a mailing list would be more modern and ease > the task. > > Did I forget something? Not that I'm aware of. Peter _______________________________________________ Ekiga-devel-list mailing list Ekiga-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-devel-list