[UPDATE] RFC: The end of the contributors article

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:00:02 +0100
Joel Dahl <joel at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Fre 2007-01-12 klockan 01:49 +0100 skrev Joel Dahl:
> > 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've just uploaded the latest version to:
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~joel/wii/team.html
> 
> SGML source is here:
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~joel/wii/team.sgml
> 
> There are still some parts that needs more work/discussion though:
> 
> 1.  What should the title be?  Right now it says "FreeBSD project
>     management and teams" but I don't really like that.  Suggestions?

FreeBSD Project managers perhaps?  Specific FreeBSD management
groups?  The gatekeepers??  ;)

> 
> 2.  I'm not sure about the "Teams" category.  Maybe we should name
>     that something else?  Something more descriptive would be nice.

Managers?

> 
> 3.  I need descriptions for the following teams/hats (around 40-80
>     words):
>     -  Marketing Team

The group of people who oversee FreeBSD's marketing aspect. ...
Why not just ask some of these people for descriptions.  Some of
these are also really easy:

>     -  Portmgr Secretary (rewin promised to fix ths one)
>     -  Security Secretary (remko promised to fix this one)
>     -  Accounts Team

We create accounts.

>     -  Backup Administrators

We backs up your data.

>     -  Bugmeisters & GNATS administrators
>     -  Cluster Administrators
>     -  CVS Source Repository Managers

We handle repo-copies, and fix CVS when you break it.

>     -  CVSup Mirror Site Coordinators
>     -  DNS Administrators

We run DNS!  YAY BIND!

>     -  FTP/WWW Mirror Site Coordinators
>     -  Perforce Source Repository Managers
>     -  Postmaster Team

We make sure most of the email you send goes where it should,
we also try to ensure your spam count is low.  Sometimes we
lose a message, but it's ok because ten US dollars says it
wasn't important anyway.  :P

Oh, wait, that's how I run the mail server at work, scratch
that.

>     -  Ref Administrators
> 
> 4.  Introduction needed.  Should contain something about how we
>     elect teams and team members, a few words about our organizational
>     structure and how to contact teams etc.

I think Robert Watson's presentation at BSDCan 2006 has several
descriptions you can borrow.  (CC:ed)

> 
> 5.  Extending the core team description would be nice.  I just copied
>     the text from the contributors article, but it's pretty weak imho.

Well, what does the core team do?  Ask yourself, what have you seen
them deal with?  Most recent was syncing of the license(s).

> 
> 6.  Where should we place it?  I'd like to avoid a major bikeshed when
>     I'm about to commit it, so we might as well decide this right away.
>     "About" or "Developers" seems most natural to me.

Let's put it back in the article!  /me ducks

> 
> 7.  Comments, suggestions & feedback much appreciated.
> 

I really hope this didn't come off as rude, I think you've
done a fabulous job thus far.  Perhaps we can just put the
page in our main www/en directory, and perhaps link it from
the developers link?

By the way, are you planning to convert the "list of developers"
and "list of contributors," etc?

-- 
Tom Rhodes