Hi Gianluca,
On 16/05/2011 10:32, Gianluca Turconi wrote:
Sophie Gautier wrote:
So that could be a task for somebody who has recurrent time slots
available to [partly] manage the tasks planning. If the tool really
provide efficiency in time management, we should be able to avoid
harassing volunteers already overwhelmed.
Are we talking about "coordinators", aren't we?
Yes
If so, that may work as long as the "lower levels", this is to say who
really wants the help for a project, sends his/her requests for help to
the coordinators. This is an (little) overload too. However, I think
it's bearable.
Or the "lower levels" could add the request to the wiki, but the
coordinator check that's it's well filled, there is enough information
on the duration, etc, somewhat the same way a moderator on a forum
organize and tag or remove the posts.
So, the work flow should be:
a) Maintainers/current contributors sends their requests for help to -->
coordinators who add those requests to the "employment system" so that
--> wannabe contributors can choose the task to which they want to
contribute;
yes or see above,
b) after wannabe contributors have chosen the preferred task, they
contact --> the coordinators who will communicate to --> the
maintainers/current contributors that somebody else has completed or
wants to collaborate to a task.
It may work, if everybody do everything in the right way. :)
:) yes, but I think it's good also to have this person the coordinator
who has an overall vision of the system and the workflow, more than only
people who have a fragmented view, because resources can be moved from
one task to another sometime, or tasks can overlap.
We should discuss about how huge and difficult could be such
coordination work. What skills are needed for such role? Knowledge of
the TDF/LibO project as a whole? Technical skills? Others?
Knowledge of the project and a good understanding of what are the
different tasks or development areas on the product, not necessarily
technical skills, understanding is enough. Coordination could be a
greedy task, imho, so also there should be a good communication between
the different coordinators, may be irc channel/meetings. I should have a
look at Mediawiki and there organization, may be we could pick ideas.
Once determined how many "coordinators" are needed for the start-up of
the project, we may discuss about the technical feasibility (wiki or
bugzilla?) and the recruiting campaign for those coordinators.
Yes. I'm more for a wiki than a bugzilla, unless you know one that has a
very nice interface and is not frightening for non technical contributors.
Kind regards
Sophie
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