From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 19:50:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A998116A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:50:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F4E43D54 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:50:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id A85A1AA; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:50:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:50:02 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041204195002.GZ569@seekingfire.com> References: <20041128202656.GL750@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20041202221228.GG78684@abigail.blackend.org> <20041203123606.100fa863@localhost> <200412031329.34102.zettel@acm.org> <20041203165704.400243a3@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041203165704.400243a3@localhost> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/personal/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers X-Tillman-rules: yes he does User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 19:50:03 -0000 > Not really sure what the best way to go about getting things > done around here would be other than: > > Post a list of tasks of mixed sizes, > Request people (people, not committers not contributors) to grab a task, > Commit completed work after some minor/major review, > As one task is completed another is grabbed up. > > Hopefully some others will chime in here and let me know how > they feel about this. Perhaps we should 'elect' a temporary > project manager and just start getting things done. Perhaps > that is a bad idea. I don't know, what does everybody > think? Working /with/ someone (Giorgos Keramidas, in my case) has been a tremendous help. Granted, great docproj documentation would be nice ... but having a mentor is working great for me, and helped me get started with doing useful work quicker. An idea that I've been mulling: The cvs-src summary that's posted occasionally to the -current mailing list might be worth emulating. No need to explicitly manage a MAINTAINERS file or anything if, once a week or so, a volunteer could post summary of who's been working on what and what the mailing list has been talking about. This has more of a "human sounding voice" to it and doesn't go "stale" (it only covers the last week or so). It would also be useful for folks interested in what the doc folks do, and would help with the advertising item. -T -- Page 594: You will find that the Unix file system has a compelling beauty: everything makes sense. - Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_