> I think this thread is evidence that there is a strong desire from the user > base to revive the development of scid, and that there are people who are > interested to help out. Count me among those. I guess it is also > uncontroversial that having a larger development community can only benefit > the project, because then the project will not die if the sole developer goes > MIA.
I could not agree more. This is not a theorical possibility: this is the second time in Scid's Project history. Just imagine any kind of public servant doing the same. *** Glancing over the documentation, I found this: > You can categorize your contributors in different "Usergroups" and assign > permissions to various portions of your project by group. The default set of > groups includes Admin, Developers, and Members. You can add as many groups as > you would like, to manage various functions of your projects. Project > permissions are managed by assigning the same permissions to everyone in that > group. http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Project%20Permissions/ Organizing a task force is not an effortless project. There could be other groups than the default groups. I have no idea what permissions Fulvio has, since he could not add me. I have no idea what permissions has franzna's. (For those who don't know him, it's Franz Nagl, the guy who maintains the FIDE list). Clarifying this should increase volunteering. I'm not an administration fan (i.e. I needed to read that SF), but we should be able to make Scid look like a community effort. *** BTW, there is a policy in place to takeover abandoned projects: > SourceForge.net projects that are abandoned or no longer actively being > developed, may potentially be taken over by another registered > SourceForge.net user. To do so, send a message to the existing project > administrators by clicking on their name(s) in the project listing and > requesting that they add you as an administrator to the project so that you > may continue its development. If they add you as an admin, you may takeover > the running of the project in question. http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Abandoned%20Projects/ I should have said "takeover" earlier. Sorry about that. *** Another note: I'm writing this for two reasons. First, because I believe that's where we should discuss. Second, because it will be on record. For ever and ever, people will read this mailing list. This mailing list acts as a tracking device. In fact, this is the only tracker we have so far. (Having a tracking software might be needed, sooner or later. Updating Scid's website to the new SF too.) *** I understand there are things that are best said in private. But it's also important to make sure that the public record is understandable. It also provides evidence for the speech acts. For instance, when Steven says: > I think we're going to merge the two Scids back into one. what's missing is: > Hello, my name is Steven Atkinson, and I am the new lead developer of Scid. The first part is of course less mandatory than the second one. What we witnessed can be understandable alright. But it was **implicit**. Sometimes, we need to have the speech act to make it official: marriage, baptism, court sentence, etc. What I'm saying right now has only been discovered in the 1950s by the philosophers, so please don't dismiss this as a trivial point. It is trivial, but let's not wait until we need to cast a vote to have some kind of basic decorum, please. *** All we know from one another is mostly this list. We share about 10 natural languages with one another. Openness is important, even if most of the times it could be seen as cumbersome. PS: Note that I took about an hour writing this. This is the first kind of "coding" humans had. I have a full notebook of UX notes, in case people are wondering if I only like to chat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
