On Jan 8, 2008 12:53 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Perhaps one option would be for non-programmer packagers to team up with > a programmer/sponsor to take on the task of package maintenance? Where > currently a package has one 'owner', there would instead be two rôles -- > a 'packager' and potentially a separate 'hacker'. Those wanting to > package software which they can't fully maintain for themselves would > have to recruit a programmer-type to sign up for the job with them. I wanted to follow-up on this with a little strawman diagram of how I would want to incorporate David's idea into a larger role-based team concept.. where the SIGs are the main organizational structure. Take a look at this diagram of how I would like to see SIGs generally structured in terms of team roles: http://fedorapeople.org/~jspaleta/role-based-sigs/sig-teams.png Generally speaking, I'd like to see Packaging SIG have people in place for each of the 5 roles identified. The connections between those roles in the diagram represent generally normal role interactions that would be expected between team members in a SIG. Outside of that, there are Interaction Specialists who act as a resource for all SIGs to deal with common tasks in certain areas. I've populated the colored rectangles around the diagram with examples of types of specialists for different tasks. David would fall into the arch-guru or programming-language-guru category and would most likely be called on to help maintainers and developers who make up a SIG to help with specific problems. But on the other side of things, artists and video experts would be resources for documenters and user-helpers who wanted to create user facing materials like tours and task howtos. In this diagram the colored role circles are things we could internally develop some sort of baseline training and recruitment program for. The colored specialist rectangles are things that would be more difficult to provide training for internally..and we are relying on expert skills that people have developed outside the project. Okay well feature wrangler is the exception to the rule here...but you get the idea. Thoughts? -jef _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
