On 24.10.2016 19:26, Val Kulkov wrote: > Hi Jo, > >>>> Part of the problem, I >>>> think, is the lack of clear and consistent (and visible) governance and >>>> communication makes the project unappealing for companies to be >>>> interested in paying developers to work on either. It's not enough to >>>> have code and commits, there needs to be a communications strategy as >>>> well, or the projects will die. > >>> I think it's mostly because of the usual reasons in opensource projects. >>> Core developers are overloaded, and in what little time they have they >>> prefer to code (understandable, but same self-defying issues in OpenWRT). > >> IMHO this summarizes the current situation quite nicely and I'd say I >> agree with it completely. >> >> Note that we're trying to slowly dig ourselves out of the hole we made >> ourselves over the years but it requires time and dedication. I for >> example would love to lean back a bit and start caring more about >> community matters and communication but before I can do that, we need to >> find some more people compensate the missing developer time. > > I think some communication from the core team is essential to the > overall health of the project. It is difficult to get a sense of > direction and priorities from the discussions here or at Github. When > the core team is silent on what's going on, people get frustrated > because they don't see where the project is going. > > Even a brief post from the core team to this mailing list, outlining > short and/or long term objectives and any other relevant matters, > would go a long way towards creating the sense of direction. The > communication does not have to perfect, but it has to be regular. > IMHO, a half an hour (or less) of someone's time to outline what's > going on, on a monthly basis, would be much appreciated by most of us. > It would demonstrate that the core team is engaged and cares about the > community.
+1 a simple grep/posting of the #agreed/#action lines from your meeting logs could be a good start. ..ede _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
