Vladimir Kosovac wrote: > > Karsten Wade wrote: >> What next? >> >> A. Revitalize the Docs Project leadership, hold elections, and keep >> things moving >> > I'm with Karsten on this one. > > Documentation Project grew over time to a pretty complex entity with a > lot of moving parts. It's not getting simpler, either. To have any > chance of being successful, it needs to be managed like a project. > > I think I also understand where is Paul Frields coming from but I don't > agree that it's time to give up. Instead, let's do what procedurally > needs to be done - announce and hold elections and see how can we move on. > > Few ideas that come to mind, in a not so coherent shape: > > Before the results are in (very important!) get together all > contributors who are, depending on the state of the individual activity > over the past year, happy to extend/renew their commitment to writing > content. I shall be the first one to pledge this commitment (renew option). > > The other important thing that we seem lacking is a way of measuring > accountability. I realise we are all volunteers with a variety of other, > more pressing commitments in our lives and that it is extremely > difficult to enforce this. But I am also pretty sure that every single > one of us had at least a vague idea of what are we getting ourselves into, when signing-up with the docs project. **Thats how it was supposed to read ** > > It's only fair to establish this in some way. Project leaders cannot be > the only individuals with accountability attached to their roles. > > Then, to make project leader's life bearable, do what FDSCo page says: > > "As roles are defined in the process documentation, the chair will > delegate various roles to the members of the FDSCo to manage." > > Share the burden, guys, then do the similar down the hierarchy ladder in > your assigned areas. > > Try to set the milestones for every written bit, not only stuff that's > closely tied to $release. Do this with DUG, SAG, everything. > > It shouldn't be too hard to get some momentum going, though - stuff is > in a good shape, just needs a little bit more effort from all of us. > > Vladimir > >> ... or ... >> >> B. Reduce complexity and scope of leadership to focus on a SIG and just >> getting stuff done >> >> I've been trying to find my way back to A, and if that is our consensus, >> I'll work harder at making it happen. >> >> thx - Karsten >> >> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Policy/FDSCoElections >> >
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