On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 19:31 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > 2008/10/5 Thorsten Wilms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> One does not need to push people about to be a leader. A better way to > phrase it might be "responsible person" or even just "contact person". > This is very handy when trying to stick to a roadmap. Also when people > go absent: When (not "if", but "when") the Roadmap Responsible takes a > long vacation anyone should be able to step in as replacement because > it is really just about collecting the various contacts of the sub > projects and get status reports from those and update the roadmap > accordingly. I was only joking regarding pushing people ;) Now I am the contact person for all things Kyūdō. I do want to get the project running. Long term, I want to be able to step back and have it working without me. > Breaking the tasks into smaller well defined components should also > make it less daunting to accept the responsibility of one of them. A > "Roadmap Contact" might have the job description: "Make sure the > Roadmap wiki page is up to date and maintain the list of contacts for > the sub projects", that is easy an simple to live up to and should > take too much time. Maybe this could even be managed inside > launchpad... Once there's actually at least one team working on a theme, we will have different responsibilities and will indeed need a schedule. > I can not get involved more than a bit of commenting and review > although I would like to. I simply don't have the time as I am running > a few too many other FOSS projects on the side already :-) You have my deepest understanding ;) > However feel free to use me as a "technical consultant". As I am no > stranger to Gnome development I might be able to service a few > requests regarding "can you create a patch to Murrine that does > <foo>?". I have done that in the past at least. In case we go serious > about one of the patches I can also work with upstream on the > integration. Noted and thanks for this offer! -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
