On 11 Sep 2011, at 09:15, Søren Hauberg wrote: > lør, 10 09 2011 kl. 22:06 +0100, skrev Carnë Draug: >> On 10 September 2011 16:58, Andy Buckle <andybuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Saturday, 10 September 2011, Søren Hauberg <so...@hauberg.org> wrote: >>>> The little time I have for >>>> Octave has then been spend on administrative things like filtering >>>> mailing lists and releasing packages. >>> >>> Why not grant upload rights to package maintainers? That would make the job >>> less onerous. >> >> I agree with Andy. Is it possible to have more than one people doing >> those jobs? I wouldn't mind help filtering the mailing list and on the >> bug tracker. > > Currently we are a couple of people doing this: Carlo is helping > uploading packages
Actually you beat me to that most of the time ;) > and a couple of people are filtering mailing lists (I > actually don't know who). More people are welcome to help here. > >> I don't think the position of project leader should be to >> do all the administrative stuff. > > I agree, which is why I am looking for a replacement. I have reduced my > contributions to the administrative stuff, but there are many other > things a good project maintainer should be doing: > > * Help and guide new contributors. > * Make the hard decisions (e.g. should we move to Savannah or > not). > * Improve the infrastructure. > > (A good maintainer would be able to come up with more points...). > Currently, I am not doing any of those things, which is why I think we > need somebody new to take the maintainer role; otherwise I fear the > project will stagnate. Actually, I don't think we necessarily need ONE leader but rather more motivated and active contributors. As for hard decisions, taking them together might make them even harder but I believe the more people are involved in the decision, the more they will be likely to contribute later. I just upgraded Thomas and Carnë to project admins, hope you don't objct that. Personally I volunteer to help doing some of the boring stuff but, as you might have noticed, I do not usually have much time, so for sure I cannot commit to take care of larger projects. > Søren c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Using storage to extend the benefits of virtualization and iSCSI Virtualization increases hardware utilization and delivers a new level of agility. Learn what those decisions are and how to modernize your storage and backup environments for virtualization. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51434361/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
