Over the past few weeks I've realised that I've completely lost all enthusiasm for OpenGuides. This is a bad thing, and it needs fixing. Part of the problem is that I'm really not very well right now, and I could very much do with handing off some of my responsibilities.
The thing that I'm finding hardest at the moment is being the release manager/kwalitee assurer/whatever for OpenGuides. There are several people with CVS commit rights, and that means that before I make a release I have to make sure of a whole pile of things, for example that people's changes work smoothly together, that nobody is going off in a completely bogus direction, that implementation decisions are made sensibly, that the code is no more complicated than is necessary to get the job done, that documentation is kept up to date, that new code is thoroughly tested, and that old tests still pass. And so on.
I let 0.41 escape with a failing test, and this is yet another indicator that I'm getting tired. I need to pass on overall responsibility for OpenGuides to someone else, at least for a couple of months. However this leaves me with a problem - who?
It seems to me that although there are several people connected with the project who are exceedingly enthusiastic about OpenGuides, and likewise several people who I feel could take this task over from me, these groups don't overlap at all. In other words, I don't think any of the people who are likely to want to take over from me are quite ready for it just yet, and I don't think any of the people who could handle the job are likely to both want it and have time to do it.
(I'm not going to get into an argument with anyone over whether they're up to this task. Please trust my judgement. However if you think you could do it and you think I've overlooked you solely due to underestimating your enthusiasm for OpenGuides or free time to work on it, please drop me a private mail.)
So it looks like we're probably going to have to start trying to recruit someone who's not currently hooked on OpenGuides - find somebody competent and *get* them hooked. Unless one of you clever people can come up with another solution.
Comments and discussion welcomed and encouraged - the sooner we start sorting this out the better, both for me and for the project.
Kake
This one time, at band camp, Kake L Pugh wrote:
It seems to me that although there are several people connected with the project who are exceedingly enthusiastic about OpenGuides, and likewise several people who I feel could take this task over from me, these groups don't overlap at all. In other words, I don't think any of the people who are likely to want to take over from me are quite ready for it just yet, and I don't think any of the people who could handle the job are likely to both want it and have time to do it.
I am certainly NOT this person -- not enough Perl juju coursing through my veins, to start with.
However, would it be possible for you to train one of the enthusiastic but not-yet-ready people to take over the job? Hand-hold the person through the first few releases, then step back?
Oh dear. Um, I wish I could do something to increase the enthusiasm. Is it the CPAN stuff which you want to pass on, ie doing formal releases? I'm definitely not the right person for that. (But no one asked me anyway :-)
I'm not sure much *needs* to be done in the code (so long as the latest release passes its tests :-)
Most of what needs to be done is populating the Wiki, IMHO.
Have a holiday, come back to OpenGuides in three months.
Alex
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:49:34 +0100, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
Over the past few weeks I've realised that I've completely lost all enthusiasm for OpenGuides. This is a bad thing, and it needs fixing. Part of the problem is that I'm really not very well right now, and I could very much do with handing off some of my responsibilities.
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:49:34 +0100, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
Over the past few weeks I've realised that I've completely lost all enthusiasm for OpenGuides. This is a bad thing, and it needs fixing. Part of the problem is that I'm really not very well right now, and I could very much do with handing off some of my responsibilities.
On Thu 21 Oct 2004, Alex McLintock alex.mclintock@gmail.com wrote:
Is it the CPAN stuff which you want to pass on, ie doing formal releases?
Yes, well, that plus making decisions about how things are going to be done, and making sure that new features make sense and are tested.
I'm not sure much *needs* to be done in the code (so long as the latest release passes its tests :-)
There's loads that needs doing. People want all kinds of features added, the search needs a *lot* of work (particularly to increase performance), and the test coverage needs improvement.
Have a holiday, come back to OpenGuides in three months.
That's what I'd like to do - I need someone to take over from me for those three months or I'll just have more work waiting for me when I come back.
Kake
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