On 5/8/07, Morgan Tørvolt <morgan.torvolt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> retard, this is exactly the kind of response he didnt want, lol. And that is the kind of responses that keep those comments reoccurring. I do agree with him though. I have too seen what seems to me to be person related issues rather than driver related issues. I do of course have my own opinions on the regulars here, and I can see that some parts of the development could be causing frustration. What I am missing here, is a project manager. I believe that the dvb effort here needs one, and I cannot say that I have noticed anyone taking charge. I am not thinking of someone setting deadlines and such, just someone that could oversee the different development branches taking place, make sure that the wheel is not invented twice, and make decisions whenever everyone seems to be disagreeing.
Deadlines for developers won't work out since most people do it in their spare time.
Problem is, the person must have good people skills, good management skills, and be respected by all the people developing drivers. Could be hard to get hold of one of those, especially the part about respected. The person will also have to be willing and wanting to do the job. I guess that "open souce project manager in my spare time" could look good on anyones resymé though, so theres a little carrot. I have no suggestion for a person to do this, and I don't even know if anyone here doing the actual coding is interested in having a project manager. I do believe it would improve the efficiency and quality though.
I see a progress for several other topics at the moment (this dst/cx878 project isn't the only project that needs to be discussed). So the first priority should be to get the things done which are possible at the moment to move a step forward. I'm sure sooner or later all parts will get together. As you might have seen I put up a list of open points, where I try to get the people together which are essential for the specific points, everything that doesn't work out at the moment will get queued to the bottom of the list. http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/ConferenceAgenda Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
