[Compcomm] Let's Get Things Started

[Mike Dransfield]

Nicholas Thomas wrote:
> Bagsies here on Team DIST; who else wants to join? ;) I'm assuming gandalfn, 
> at the very least
>   

First off, its great that there are so many people willing to lend a hand.

Its also a good idea to give people roles and boundaries.

I would like to clear up some beryl misconceptions though.

WE are not responsible for packaging (ie deb/rpm generation) We are
only responsible for releasing the source (and maybe generic binaries).
The distros are responsible for finding people to turn those source
tarballs into the correct format.

This way there are clear lines between responsibilities and the workload
is kept down for everyone.  Bugs are also much easier to track down.

> Team WEB is obviously imnotpc + iXce + ???
>   

No problem with that, amgeex and RYX are responsible for the
forum and wiki new look (mainly ;)), so at the moment they are
really team WEB.

> Team DEV... pretty much everyone, I guess. It can be given a structure later.

Errrm... It takes a lot of time and dedication to develop software.

Lumping everyone else as a developer is really not a good idea
because people commit patches which they do not understand
the consequences of.  Thats why David is totally in charge of his
code and all changes must be agreed by him.  Peoples plugins
are the same.

To be honest, its fairly insulting to be told that skills you have
taken years and years to develop are not right and anyone with
a book can do the same thing with a bit of time.  These things are
like anything else in life, you need practice and experience.

It is only IT where we see this sort of attitude that so long
as you can write code you are a programmer.  I'd much rather
have limited access to stable code than unlimited access to a
code pile.  Beryl was always a code pile and we do not want
that even if it means short term gains and great looking
youtube videos.