maintainers

[John Hornbeck]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 21:08 +0100, sparkes wrote:
> I think we need to have maintainers for how-to's and some parts of the 
> wiki that report to the team leader on those sections of the docs.
> 
This is something actually that I have thought we needed for sometime
but I think maybe in a different manner.  I think we should have area's
even outside the wiki as parts we work on.  Right now everyone is
worried about the wiki, but we do have other work to do outside the
wiki.  Over the next coming weeks I think this will start to straighten
out with people saying, "I want to work in this area", in all reality
this has happened already as we have a few people who want to only work
on one part of the docs.  

I myself have said that I would like to work on emerging technology in
Ubuntu and stuff that has to be installed outside of apt-get, I have
already begun this with the beagle page.  I would like to continue with
pages on using cvs, and other developer tools.  But that is all for
later.

In the CC meeting this coming week we will try to get a working order as
far as who is leading our way and than we can work out areas of grouping
us.  If someone would like to still work accross the board that is fine
how you said the devs work.  I know some people will not want just one
area and would prefer to be a floater.  It is all volunteer anyway so do
what you want :-).
> This will work in the same way as ubuntu devs work.  Devs have specific 
> things they work on but are able to patch and update any section of the 
> docs.
> 
> The wiki should promote working as a team but if people each take chunks 
> of docs as maintainers it spreads the workload a lot more evenly to 
> people who can donate time.
> 
The wiki needs to always promote working as a team that way we can
always proof read pages and make corrections.  If people get to attached
to their pages, they will not want people making changes to them.

> Personally I have no problem with anyone editing anything I have 
> contributed (or will contribute, I have been very busy the last couple 
> of weeks) and I don't think anyone here is that precious that they have 
> more than a minor problem with things like that so it should work well.
> 
The only time I have a problem with someone editing a page is if they
remove or change critical stuff that would really change the whole doc.

> The maintainer of a doc needn't be the original author of the document, 
> we don't want third parties to think they will be stuck with 
> maintainance after a doc is contributed, but it should be someone with 
> an interest in the contents whereever possible.
> 
I don't think we could make someone keep up their doc if we tried.


John Hornbeck
http://hornbeck.freeshell.org/blogger

> I hope this stimulates some interest and allows us to co-ordinate our 
> efforts in the future.
> 
> sparkes
> -- 
> <davee> "Sparkes, the Pete Best of LugRadio"
>