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

[Max Horn]

Am 13.02.2009 um 10:38 schrieb Johannes Schickel:

> Max Horn schrieb:

[...]
>> Maybe I am wrong and/or deluded, but I believe that
>> we *did* make quite a difference when we constantly nagged people
>> about fixing that bug, or just digged in ourselves to fix up stuff.
>
> Partly true. I actually guess that isn't something which had to be  
> done
> by the leads. For engine subteams the maintainer should do it for
> example. And after all in theory everyone should be able to do  
> that :-).

Yes, in an ideal world, everybody would be active and collaborate  
this. Many things work great "in theory" :-).

Maybe we should have more explicitly told everybody that they are  
*welcome* to also help kicking people to work on stuff (engine authors  
the porters, and vice versa), but I kinda thought that would be  
obvious :-).



>> I hope it doesn't sound arrogant, but looking at <https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/reporting/index.php?atid=418820&what=techall&span=&period=lifespan&group_id=37116
>>> , Kirben, Eugene and me really made an impact there ;-). Even though
>> I'd actually prefer if bug handling was spread over more people,
>> reality is that many devs don't like tracking and fixing bugs as much
>> as writing new code...
>>
>
> Actually seeing that Kirben is no official lead shows that the problem
> does not lie in us not having enough team leads, imho.

For me, a team leader is not just a title, but also a measure of your  
activities. To me, Kirben qualifies in many ways as being a team lead.  
So do you, BTW. It's active people who take responsibility. We can't  
force people to do it, though, and those who do are precious and few.  
And I think some of our problems are because nobody feels responsible  
for certain problems or deficiencies we have, and takes it up to work  
on them.



Bye,
Max