Hi Denis, I could work on a doc subgroup. If we fear to loose some information about what is done in each group, we could organize some regular meeting to gather the news from each subgroup.
- Fil Lupin. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:57 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> wrote: > Hi, > > At the end of the Replicant contributors Meeting in Paris we discussed, > with the people remaining, how to make it more easy to contribute to > Replicant and how to make it more welcoming. > > In this discussion I mentioned that we could have working groups: it > would enable people to more easily work together on a specific topic. > > For instance Community Internet service providers in France typically > use that. You would have a group of people working on providing a SIP > network while another group (of possibly the same people) would work > on getting access to the fiber network for instance. > > They have separate mailing list and meetings to coordinate the work. > > Practically speaking we could identify areas of work (Replicant > installation manuals, Replicant network infrastructure, etc) and make a > sub-project in Redmine and possibly a distinct mailing list for that. > > Having a sub-project would also enable to scale better by having the > sub-communities managing the sub-project. > > People present when we discussed that were mostly in favor of the > general idea. > > So I was wondering what you would think about it, for instance is it > still a good idea, and/or how to put it in practice. > > At the end of the day the idea is to enable people to feel more > welcome and empowered to collaborate and collaborate more easily. > > So one of the risk of it would be that the sub-communities > would be isolated and that there would be duplication of work, less > reviews, and less knowledge about their work. > > As the work on managing the Replicant infrastructure (Redmine updates, > the git.replicant.us virtual machine, etc) is separated from the rest > of the work on Replicant (wiki contributions, forums, patches for > graphics, porting to Android 9, etc) I was thinking of making it a > subproject of Replicant: > > - It would have its own mailing list > - It would also have its own sub-project in Redmine. > > Here since not many people are working on it and that there isn't much > to move we could easily try if it works for a small group of people. > > To test with a bigger group of people other areas of work might be > better suited like the installation documentation for instance. > > Denis. > > > Replicant mailing list > Replicant@osuosl.org > https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
