[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Mike Dransfield]

RYX wrote:
> The WEB-team focuses on the website-discussion and -improvement, the
> COREDEV-team focuses on improving the core (they even have their own
> list already and I think this works well), the PLUGDEV-team focuses on
> porting/improving/inventing old/new plugins, the APPDEV-team creates a
> settingsTool/pluginIfaceForDecorator/startupManager, the DOC-team gets
> its ass up and writes down good developer/user-documentation ...
>
>   

Just a note about these.  I do not think its a good idea to
categorize devs like that.  Really most people will have little
to do with core development.  Its only really needed when we
need extra features for plugins or there is a bug.

I think these teams would be good

DEV - Should have actually written something substantial, not
just people who would like to do something one day (sorry, no
offense anyone), could be anything.

WEB -  Wiki, forum design etc.  These people may also be responsible
for sysop stuff like restarting server or this could be another team.

RELEASE - We BADLY need people to write about new releases and
publicise them.  We need at least one person who is mildly technical
to translate the git logs into something people can understand.  This
then needs to be put on a nice html page and linked on the usual
sites.  There should also be someone mildly technical who can actually
prepare a tarball for release along with each compiz release.

DOC - Sounds good, should clarify what is being documented though,
I assume the same people documenting the source code will be different
from those documenting how to install a deb.

TEST - These people should routinely and systematically test new
releases for new bugs and confirm old bugs are fixed.  People could
choose 1 or 2 plugins each and then design a test with the developer
which they can then repeat.