RFC: The end of the contributors article

Joel Dahl joel at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 12 01:11:48 UTC 2007


Today I decided to finally do what I've been planning to do for a long
time: move stuff out of the contributors article and instead place it
under www/.

I started with the teams etc and you can see the results here (nowhere
near finished yet though):

http://people.freebsd.org/~joel/wii/team.html

So, why bother anyway?  Well:

-  Better information about what the different teams do and what their
   responsibilities are.  Our developers are generally very confused
   when it comes to finding the right person to talk to, for example
   when requesting repo-copies or new perforce accounts etc.  This will
   hopefully improve the situation somewhat.
-  The translation teams generally don't translate the contributors
   article since it doesn't seem to be worth the effort.  Hopefully
   this will change now, since this can be quite important information
   even for non-English speaking people.
-  Email addresses are not completely visible anymore. 
-  This information does not really belong in an article.
-  This is more up-to-date and includes a lot more teams etc.

Feedback much appreciated.  I'd be grateful if someone could help me out
with writing more descriptions of the various teams.  Also, if someone
could triple-check the document for obvious mistakes, such as wrong team
members on the wrong teams etc, that would be great.

I haven't really decided where to put it yet, or what to call it, so
suggestions are welcome here as well.

It's late here and I'm *so* tired, so sorry for any typos...

-- 
Joel




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