Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:43:34 +0100 From: "Niclas Zeising" <niclas.zeising@gmail.com> To: "Joel Dahl" <joel@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: The end of the contributors article Message-ID: <bc292860701120143m41066fb8id723c66faa1d2a59@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> References: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se>
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On 1/12/07, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> wrote: > Today I decided to finally do what I've been planning to do for a long > time: move stuff out of the contributors article and instead place it > under www/. > > I started with the teams etc and you can see the results here (nowhere > near finished yet though): > > http://people.freebsd.org/~joel/wii/team.html > > So, why bother anyway? Well: > > - Better information about what the different teams do and what their > responsibilities are. Our developers are generally very confused > when it comes to finding the right person to talk to, for example > when requesting repo-copies or new perforce accounts etc. This will > hopefully improve the situation somewhat. > - The translation teams generally don't translate the contributors > article since it doesn't seem to be worth the effort. Hopefully > this will change now, since this can be quite important information > even for non-English speaking people. > - Email addresses are not completely visible anymore. > - This information does not really belong in an article. > - This is more up-to-date and includes a lot more teams etc. > > Feedback much appreciated. I'd be grateful if someone could help me out > with writing more descriptions of the various teams. Also, if someone > could triple-check the document for obvious mistakes, such as wrong team > members on the wrong teams etc, that would be great. > > I haven't really decided where to put it yet, or what to call it, so > suggestions are welcome here as well. > > It's late here and I'm *so* tired, so sorry for any typos... > > -- > Joel > This looks great! At least what you've typed up so far. Scream if you need a hand (or rather, two hands and a keyboard, but you know ;) ). About placement. I think it should be put either in the community section or the developers section. I'm not entierly sure which option is best though. //Niclas
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