[Ekiga-list] Let's spread Ekiga : volunteers ?

[Damien Sandras]

Sending again.

Le lundi 12 février 2007 à 22:32 +0100, Damien Sandras a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Most of you already know that I want to reorganize the Ekiga team to
> bring fresh air into the project.
> 
> The current active project leaders including myself would like o
> concentrate on what they do best : coding, packaging, ... 
> 
> Consequently, we would like to "hire" new contributors who will help the
> current team.
> 
> Here is the list of tasks I have identified, with the proposed
> "maintainers".
> 
> 1) CODING
> ---------
> 
> Moving Ekiga to the 3.00 release is not a small task. People
> coordinating this task are Damien Sandras, Julien Puydt and Jan
> Schampera. New coders are welcome.
> 
> 2) BUG TRIAGING
> ---------------
> 
> We are receiving bug reports, as any software would. There is a
> preliminary task before accepting a bug report. This task includes :
> checking for duplicates of that bug report, trying to reproduce it,
> making sure that all the relevant information has been given by the
> reporter and closing old bug reports.
> 
> Currently, Julien, Jan and myself are doing this task with the GNOME
> bugzilla team. The best would be that some new persons take that task
> into their responsability and that we only do "level 2" support for
> those bugs.
> 
> 3) DOCUMENTATION / FAQ
> ----------------------
> 
> Writing Documentation on the WIKI and updating the FAQ is a hard job. It
> helps new users with a minimum knowledge to step in and make the
> userbase grow.
> 
> I propose Yannick as responsible of this task. Yannick is doing an
> incredible job in the Ubuntu community. Native speakers will be required
> to help him in his job.
> 
> 4) MANUAL
> ---------
> 
> I am the one to write the manual of Ekiga when there is a new release.
> Christopher Warner and Matthias Redlich wrote the first version of the
> manual. Ekiga 3.00 will require major updates and a new manual.
> 
> We are looking for volunteers for that task too.
> 
> 5) PACKAGING
> ------------
> 
> Kilian is the current maintainer for http://snapshots.seconix.com.
> New architectures, new distributions should be supported and added to
> our list. Kilian will need help for that.
> 
> 6) WEB SERVERS
> --------------
> 
> Having a professional look for http://ekiga.net and http://ekiga.org is
> mandatory for our image.
> 
> Fabian Deutsch will coordinate the work for http://ekiga.org, the new
> site will be based on Media Wiki.
> 
> We need somebody for http://ekiga.net. It will either require writing a
> skin for SERWEB or writing new code to handle registrations and welcome
> the user. Currently, http://ekiga.net is very limited.
>  
> What could be done is incorporating the user signup into
> http://ekiga.org and have one unique site with a global offer. Ekiga.org
> would also give information about the Ekiga.net service but there would
> be no specific site for ekiga.net. We need volunteers for that and
> Fabian needs help.
> 
> 7) WORD OF MOUTH
> ----------------
> 
> We need somebody to coordinate the "press" team. More articles about
> Ekiga, more hype, spread it !
> 
> That is an important part of every project. It needs volunteers.
> 
> Thanks for reading me !
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