Steven Edwards wrote:
Hi,
--- Filip Navara xnavara@volny.cz wrote:
I doubt someone would vote for me, but if it would be collective decision I'll not object. (Personally I have two candidates for the position that I would propably choose from in the voting...)
Well I am divided on who I would vote for as the people I named would all be great in the role but I would like to hear something alone the lines of
"If I was KC I would try to implement the following development method, rules, reactos coffee maker, etc...."
I personally think that I can help with specific problems in specific occasions and I'm not considering myself as a leader. In past there were some occasions where I wanted to step in ... the Alex's misc. branch and the recent Alex vs. Hartmut arguing ... and guess what? I haven't done that and that itself makes me bad for the position :)
So far all the problems were eventually settled down... the Alex's branch was merged patch by patch to trunk and we had a voting about whether it's good idea to allow such branches in future. And here's the point ... every problem so far was solved in a (relatively) civil way and it got even better with the introduction of voting system. So what's left for the coordinator?
I don't think there's a need for the coordinator at all except for very rare occasions ... actually we have been living without a coordinator for quite some time (Rex and Vizzini were mostly away). If there would be something I can see that needs to be improved it's the management of branches and distribution of the developer manpower. We have there New Cache Manager, EXT2FS and few other gems which unfortunately can't be merged due to some small bugs / unimplemented features ... while other people spend time rewritting stuff that works. Of course as we're FOSS community there's no way to force people to do something that they don't want to work on unless you have a congenital authority, a lot of spare money or a bunch of ROS mugs (some people know what I mean ;-). Also I would like to see the Kernel Status Reports back (for those who don't know what I'm talking about, see http://mok.lvcm.com/reactos/kernel/) though I'm not sure if it can be realized ...
SO DON'T VOTE FOR ME UNLESS YOU JUST WANT SOMEONE WHO WILL SETTLE ARGUMENTS. ;-)
Let's see if someone will have creative presentaion or present some nice visions ... but I won't do that myself. My big candidates are Alex and Hartmut, so let's see. :)
- Filip
P.S. Extra points for those offering ROS mugs as a reward for work :)
"Here at ReactOS, the whole kernel team is nuts!!!" ~ Rex Jolliff