On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Željko Filipin < [email protected]> wrote:
> A few of us from the Watir Team[1] were chatting about making process of > getting into the team more transparent. For now we just do whatever we like. > :) > > Things to do: > > 1) I have seen other projects have a vote (+1, -1, ~1) at their development > list. I think that is enough and makes it transparent. Agree? > Not sure I understand "~1". I thought it was +0. But then I still use paper for my todo list, so I am old-fashioned. One of the things that makes this complicated is that this is not a simple team. We have people who run watir.com, people who commit code, people who run our mailing lists. In these cases, we give them certain permissions to do these things. There is also recognition of what certain people do.... > 2) We have recently added Andreas to the team. If we agree on 1) we will > have a vote on that soon. > I suggested that we add Andreas to the team page on Watir.com, so I am of course +1 on this. 3) I would even like a voting for existing members, so we get (or lose) > credibility. After we see how 2) goes. > Well, I think this might be a reference to the fact that I recently, privately suggested we give Tim editor rights to Watir.com. Although we have already done that, I don't mind putting that question to a vote. I am of course +1 on this issue. This also makes me think that there should be a clear understanding that the Watir team does in fact have the right to vote me off the island if you all so wanted to. I would respect the decision of the team. > 4) I would like to move a few people to alumni section. How do we decide > when to move somebody there? No (significant) contributions in past 6/12 > months? (I would like to make it clear that moving to alumni section is not > a punishment, but a reflection of the current state. It is easy to move back > to active contributors, if the person becomes active again. Of course, we > would vote here about that.) > I have periodically done this in the past, but there has not really been a protocol. I think it is important for us to recognize who the active members of the Watir team are. This respects their contributions and also helps our users have a better understanding about who is really doing the work currently. We owe this to our user community. My general feeling is that someone who has not made a significant contribution to the team for a year should no longer be considered part of the active team. There are certainly things that come up -- releases, illnesses, vacations, babies, job transitions -- that may make us unable to contribute for months. I guess it would be best if people who no longer consider themselves part of the active team were to nominate themselves for the alumni list. Bret -- Bret Pettichord Director, Watir Project, www.watir.com Blog, www.testingwithvision.com Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
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