RE: [ros-general] Project Structure - Contact Information

[Casper Hornstrup]

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> Sent: 17. november 2004 05:09
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> Subject: [ros-general] Project Structure - Contact Information
>
> Hello,
> Some of the recent problems we have had with design issues 
> and with roles in the project have led me to the idea of our 
> current project structure. I think we need to overhaul the 
> system and would like to hear some feedback. If anyone wants 
> to jump in please do so. Note the kernel discussion regarding 
> ntoskrnl just made me think about it but that situation is 
> resolving itself.
>
> In the past we have discussed having a single person that 
> reviews and commits all patches to check for breakages and 
> such but the CI system will take care of this issue for us. 
> The big problem we face are disagreements on design decisions 
> and direction so I propose the following change,
>
> Right now we have 4 or 5 really well defined roles
>
> Project Coordinator - Jason Filby
> Kernel Coordinator - vizzini
> Application Coordinator - Brian Palmer
> Translation Team Coordinator - Fireball
> Release Coordinator - Robert
> And a possible webmaster. - ?? T ????
>
> I think we also need to look at clearly defining the role of 
> developers that maintain certain key modules. Maybe we need a 
> new page on the website that lists this. The following should 
> be added to the project structure
>
> ntoskrnl component managers - Filip, Hartmut explorer.exe - 
> Martin Fuchs the installation system - Eric Kohl
> Win32 subsystem - GvG
> networking - Arty
> build system maintainer - Casper
>
> This seems to be the natural evolution the project is taking. 
> This will help if someone new joins the project and has 
> questions and will give us someone to go to in the event of a problem.
>
> Thanks
> Steven

The Subversion team has successfully used the following voting system:
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/HACKING
Search for "voting system". I think we can modify this for our use.

I also believe that area maintainers is the way to go. We have 2M lines
of code to maintain. Its a bit much for one person to track.

Casper