Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon

[Tom Rhodes]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:31:20 +0100
Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:57:04PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > Not really sure what the best way to go about getting things
> > done around here would be other than:
> > 
> > Post a list of tasks of mixed sizes,
> > Request people (people, not committers not contributors) to grab a task,
> > Commit completed work after some minor/major review,
> > As one task is completed another is grabbed up.
> > 
> > Hopefully some others will chime in here and let me know how
> > they feel about this.  Perhaps we should 'elect' a temporary
> > project manager and just start getting things done.  Perhaps
> > that is a bad idea.  I don't know, what does everybody
> > think?
> > 
> 
> I know some TODO lists/pages, let's take one example: the 5.3-R TODO
> list, when Hiroki and I wrote it we removed some items to avoid a too
> long and scary list, some items still haven't found a person to
> work on...
> We can do circles during a long time, the problem is not having someone
> at the top of the pyramid etc., the problem is having people really
> doing the work.  From my point of view this thread is useless, I'd
> prefer to see some real patches instead of long talks in the wind.  As
> you said (in something I did not quote) there's quite no risk of work
> collision, so it's easy for anyone to find something that needs to be
> fixed and work on it.  And the more I read this thread, the more I think
> we are trying to point the structure of docproj (persons) as responsible
> of the current "bad" shape of the doc/ tree.  Frankly, the doc/ tree
> shape is not that bad, I'd even add it is in a good shape according to
> readers complaints.  So let's improve the docs in committing things and
> not in thinking about "what might be a good way of think to find good
> ideas to improve things" (hehe I'm not sure my last sentence is in
> english).
> To be serious, if you want some task/todo lists and some directions, the
> doceng@ may take care of this, and since the doceng@ is not busy that
> should not be a problem for this team to work on this task.

Good!  Have Murray stop doing random list additions along with
non-discussed (rude) commits and pull him back into the
silence that is doceng@ and have it go from there.  Thank you

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Tom Rhodes