On 29/06/12 22:40, godswearhats wrote:
Hey, just joined the list recently.
Looking from the outside in, here are the problems I've seen:
* No clear leadership (I'm here, I want to help, I don't know who to
ask for work!)
* No clear short-term goals
* No clear way for people to join in
Maybe all these things exist, and I expect some of them do, but it's
not clear to newbies or outsiders.
I want to help, but don't know if the help I want to give is going to
piss people off. What I'd like to see:
* A (short) list of functionality for an MVP
* A lead for each sub-project under that, even if the lead says "TBD",
and an obvious way to contact the lead
* An issue tracker with some tasks in it, even if those tasks say
"it's not clear how to do this yet."
* Distinct identity - at the moment, FreedomBox feels like it's owned
by Debian
* Some milestones
In other open source efforts I've been a part of, there's usually an
originator who plays the role of benevolent dictator, or a core team
that does the same. If this project has one or the other of those,
it's again not clear who they are or how to communicate with them.
If someone can help me understand all these things, then I'd be keen
to work to make it easier for the rest of the world to understand them
too.
You make some excellent points.
I also think that optimizing the "contribution-process" on many levels
could be much better.
I contributed some design effort that is not used yet, and I don't know
what would be the best way to get the new wiki look up and running asap:
http://mray.de/fbxfoundation_robert/theme.html
Can somebody please join the me in putting this online?
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