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On 11/08/2011 09:31 AM, Morgaine wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:CAM0uzSvYYcQV5WCWGSpnUMzz5rbrAwoo_FYGVKsPB0_sZvX0BA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">It's an open source project, a viewer developed by an
open source team, not by one controlling person. Why would any
one person need to be nominated as special, [...]<br>
</blockquote>
We're all special, each in our own ways.</sarcasm> But
seriously, while we are—at least <i>pro forma</i>—a team of equals
since the retirement of our then-quasi-BDFL (Jacek) from the
project, that only means <i>equal in rank</i>, but not necessarily
that we'll all take on the very same tasks. Some of us focus on
different operating systems (mostly on the ones they use and develop
on themselves) or on different areas of the viewers, some more on
Kokua, others more on Imprudence. And we have team members who are
responsible not for development work but for communication to/with
the community (Codie) and, since recently, who are in charge of
administrative stuff (ZATZAi).<br>
<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid:CAM0uzSvYYcQV5WCWGSpnUMzz5rbrAwoo_FYGVKsPB0_sZvX0BA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">[...] and made the burden of contact and
responsibility?<br>
</blockquote>
Well, for one, to keep that burden off the others, I guess. Another
important point might be to distinguish answers of individual team
members from answers of the team.<br>
<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid:CAM0uzSvYYcQV5WCWGSpnUMzz5rbrAwoo_FYGVKsPB0_sZvX0BA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
Should "any issue need to be addressed", it seems to me that it
would be very reasonable to address the issue to the team, don't
you think?<br>
</blockquote>
I indeed wondered whether I should suggest that inquiries like that
may be sent to one of our mailing lists (be it one of our publicly
readable ones or a team-internal one) and then whoever of the team
would know what to answer would do so. However, what would the
inquirer do when no answer follows? It could be nobody took the time
to read his or her message, that several people are still working on
their respective answers or that everyone individually came to the
conclusion not to know what to answer. So it might make sense to
have someone dedicated acknowledge the reception of the message,
forward it to the team and communicate the team's "official" answer
(or lack thereof) back to the one who asked.<br>
<br>
Most probably, that one person to contact will be ZATZAi, but I
think we'll be able to give a more definite answer on who it'll be
after discussing this topic coming Thursday. Note that ZATZAi is
AFAIK currently without stable Internet access due to moving, so if
you have inquiries to the team <i>right now</i> already, it might
be good to post them on one of the lists, anyway.<br>
<br>
Stay tuned,<br>
Borun<br>
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