[Scummvm-devel] Understaffing (Was: What is happening to the ScummVM team?)

Oystein Eftevaag wintermute at geheb.com
Wed Mar 4 22:06:51 CET 2009


Joost Peters wrote:
> The lack of responses only confirms the theory that beyond their own 
> corner of ScummVM, most people hardly feel responsible for the other 
> things to do with the project.  Which is why, in my opinion, it would be 
> good to have people with specific responsibilities that you can 
> approach, rather than expecting the leads to do everything (which is 
> what it boils down to right now), and wearing them down in the process.
>
>   
I agree absolutely :).

In the interest of getting more people volunteering, though, I'd make 
the "roles" as atomic as possible. Being webmaster in general -might- be 
seen as too much, but dividing it into several roles (e.g. forums, front 
page, screenshot gatherer, etc) could be more overcomeable. That isn't 
to say that one person can't fill several of the roles, but at least the 
option is there to divvy it up more. And while it might be a good idea 
to have several people for each role, for redundancy, I'd definately 
suggest that one person be the primary and the first point of contact.

At the moment I personally can't say for sure how much extra effort I 
can put in, but that'll be easier in a couple of days (Upcoming 
announcements at work which could potentially mean more responsibilities 
:) ).

// Oystein/vinterstum




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