Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Reorganizing things

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mardi 01 septembre 2009 à 10:38 +0200, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > It appears clearly that since a few months I can dedicate less time than
> > before to Ekiga. During the first 5 to 6 years of the project, I was
> > dedicating all evenings to the project and nearly all week-ends, fully.
> > 
> > It is now impossible for me to continue developing at that pace. If we
> > organize things in a clever way, I think it will not be a problem. My
> > intensive work probably hide a few organization problems.
> > 
> > We now have a few very high quality contributors: they help the project
> > move forward will less "devotion" from myself.
> > 
> > The purpose of this e-mail is to identify the areas where people can
> > help and how we should work. But before identifying those areas, I would
> > stress on the fact that my wish is to release often, but with only a
> > limited set of new features, that are well-tested. We have seen in the
> > past that we had worked on many new features, half-finished, and that it
> > was hard to stabilize them before doing a release. I don't want this to
> > happen.
> > 
> > Here is the list of tasks I have identified.
> > 
> > a) Reorganization of the WEB service (ekiga.org + ekiga.net) : it is a
> > much required work to give the feeling of a united and well thought
> > service. We need designers for that task.
> > 
> > b) Reorganization of ekiga.net services : more stability, more features.
> > I can take care of that myself, but external help would be great.
> > 
> > c) Accounts support : we receive many e-mails of people wanting to
> > remove their account or wondering why it does not work. They are not
> > answered anymore. We need somebody to help with that.
> > 
> > d) Development : we need more developers. Eugen is handling bugzilla and
> > patches. Julien is coding a lot. Michael is working on the WIN32 version
> > which is nearly as good as the Linux version. More people like all of
> > them should join the Ekiga project and help improving it.
> > 
> > e) Documentation : Yannick has been managing this since a few years
> > nearly alone. Help is welcome.
> > 
> > f) User Support : We all do user support at some level. When we do user
> > support, it means we can not dedicate time to our other tasks to make
> > the software progress. More people working on user support should join.
> > Perhaps a forum instead of a mailing list would be more modern and ease
> > the task.
> > 
> > Did I forget something? 
> > 
> > Feel free to comment...
> 
> I agree with all you said!
> 
> What does a forum have and a mailing list does not?

Wouldn't it be more user-friendly for the lambda user ?
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