On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Lee Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > Someone please step ahead and take the lead.
>
> Dear GGI people,
>
> I'll take the job for six months. If you don't feel that we are
> moving quickly enough or in the right direction, I would willingly resign.
>
> It would be a pleasure to work with so many
> knowledgable people. Whatever tasks need to be done, I'll gladly do. I have
> time.
Probably the best thing you could do at this point is to get
administration rights to the GGI SourceForge project and move our CVS, FTP
and Eric's new web pages over. We need a properly functioning project
management infrastructure, badly.
> Most of all, I would listen to the people on the list and help go in the
> direction they want to go. It's their project after all.
Please do, especially when it comes to CVS. As I mentioned in
another post, we'll probably want to reorganize the tree a bit.
> I realize I am not the best coder here, but there is my offer anyway.
We don't need super whiz coders right now nearly as much as we
need someone to come in and sweep out the corners, knock out the dents and
smooth out the rough edges. See below.
> It
> is made with the best of intentions.
The offer is appreciated. We need the admin work a lot more than
we need more GGI code right now. If you still want to code, code where
it'll make the most difference: Be a dilletante and work a little bit on
a lot of different bits of existing code, instead of plunging into a
larger project like writing your own extension. Unfortunately, this type
of "fingers in a lot of pies" approach takes quite a bit of time, but if
you have the time like you said, you could do us a world of good.
Christoph Egger does a lot of this type of work - lots of little
patches to clean up small bugs and tighten things down in general. Go
over the GGI code with a magnifying glass and looking for bugs, out of
date docs, design thinkos, etc. Stress-test GGI by trying as many
different types of targets, in as many different combinations, as you can
think of. "Sweat the Small Stuff" would be your motto |->. Anyway, think
it over.
Jon
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