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

[Paul Gilbert]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com> wrote:


> If its no fun anymore there's something wrong. To change that I like
> Joost's proposal (independent of what a ScummVM leader is and does):
> find people to do specific tasks (aka annoying work), people who have
> fun at it. There're people who enjoy managing http servers, forums and
> wikis or the like. There're also people who have fun setting up
> environments for multiple toolchains and an automatism for a build
> server. We "just" have to find those :)
>

That pretty much sums it up to my mind. I haven't commented on this thread
previously, because pretty much everything I thought has been said, and I
don't really like making a 'me too' kind of post.

>From my own point of view, I enjoy working with game engines, both
disassembling games from scratch or taking taking pre-existing original
source code, and implementing them in ScummVM. There's certainly more to
ScummVM then just the game engines, but for me, that's my comfort zone. It's
what I enjoy doing, so I tend to stick to that, and not get involved much in
other areas, such as the discussions of file system nodes, etc., which I
frequently have trouble following anyway ;)

For tasks to get done, I concur that the best solution is find people who'd
enjoy doing that, and if the ScummVM project is lucky enough to find them,
then it will benefit from people who really enjoy doing that. Otherwise,
we're very lucky to have our current project heads, who see that things get
done behind the scenes, and take responsibility for it.

I also happen to agree with what Max? said earlier about the ScummVM project
- it's not really a democracy, and never has been. Whilst it would be nice
in general to have more open notifications before major events (as a general
procedural matter) so everyone will know what's going to happen, I'm fine
with the Admins making final decisions about what happens.

Regards,

Paul.
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