Re: Things to do/Roadmap

[Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:17:33AM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> It's time to start discussing this again :-)
>
> Le lundi 15 décembre 2003, a 14:17, Eric Baudais a ecrit :
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:10:07AM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > 2) New infrastructure
> > > =====================
> > > I'd like to change our very old infrastructure to something totally
> > > automated. Eric, you worked a bit on this some months ago. Do you still
> > > have what you wrote? This should really help us to process the
> > > applications quickly. I can work on it if it is needed, but not before
> > > January.
> > > I'm sure we can do this before March. I absolutely want this before
> > > next summer.
> >
> > I think it's doable by January if I can get PHP to place nicely with
> > Apache.  I've had to reinstall Debian on my machine and haven't been
> > able to get this working correctly since.  I'd appreciate a bit of
> > help troubleshooting my development setup.  I'm using the Debian
> > packages and am not sure if the packages are at fault or the Apache
> > configuraiton.
>
> Eric: did you make any progress? I hope you could fix your setup (if
> not, tell me what's not working, I'll try to help you).

I have made some progress.  I have the program on a friend's server.
The URL is http://eric.evil-fish.net/membership.php I need to do some
bug fixing to bring it back to where it was though.  Then I'd like to
draft a design document and continue to code.  The scope of the
membership database has enlarged from what I previously envisioned.  I
hope to work on it a lot this weekend and hopefully fix a majority of
the existing bugs.  I'll write a draft of the design doc in a couple
of weeks.

> > > 5) Renewing the committee
> > > =========================
> > > Maybe it's time for some fresh blood. There are two things here we
> > > should think about:
> > >  * how many people should be in the committee? When we joined the
> > >    committee, we were five (remember Mike) (note to Glynn: I'm not
> > >    sure... were you still in the committee?). Now, we're four.
> > >  * do we want to stay or to leave?
> > > I know Ghee is on vacation, so here's what I suggest: we should all
> > > start to think about it and we'll discuss this in January.
> > > FIY, at least two people are interested in joining the committee. And
> > > still FYI, I don't know if I want to stay or leave (or if I should), so
> > > discussing this in January will allow me to determine what I want to do.
> >
> > This isn't our decision to make.  However I believe we should provide
> > some guidance to the board.  I believe the committee should be no
> > larger than six people and not smaller than three people.  I would
> > like to stay a member of the committee.  There are some things I want
> > to see done before I leave the committee.  Getting the membership
> > database and interface working is something I'd like to see completed.
> >
> > I have been approached by one person who would like to be a part of
> > this committee.  I know Vincent has been approached by a different
> > person.  I believe it is time to grow the membership committee if no
> > one wants to leave or allow people to leave without feeling guilty
> > over leaving us one short.
>
> This part is the most important for now.
> Is there some of us who want to leave? Or does everyone wants to stay?

I want to stay at least until the membership database is complete and
functioning correctly.  I expect this to take at least 6 months.
Afterwards I'll make a decision.  

No matter what everyone decides I think we should recommend to the
board to accept these two people who have expressed interest in
joining the membership committee.

Eric Baudais

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