On 16.12.2010 07:16, Helen wrote:
Our marketing structure seems to be failing. Maybe a good thing to take another peek into Fedora and see how they do it and might be a good idea to duplicate some of their procedures.
'Failing' is a trifle overstated, but the idea of borrowing ideas from other projects is a good one.
I'm sure the folks over at Fedora (like maybe Máirín Duffy ? well she's the only name I know) would be more than happy to chat with us and offer some insights.
It would be nice if we could find some way to make the information we need more readily available, without adding any annoying administration to developer's work process. Maybe someone could write a clever script that can sift out the minor changes and highlight the big ones?
I'm always happy to wrap some pretty words around stuff. What is really difficult sometimes for me personally is knowing whether something is significant and what it means. So if someone can do some fundamental bit of information-gathering, I'll put my hand up to work collaboratively on this, so long as there's others who can correct, fill in gaps and so on.
Perhaps a good first step would be to break the major changes into sections (eg under-the-hood, desktop, tools, toys....) and people 'check out' their favorite topics....
It's easy to spend hours having meetings about structures about processes about standards.... argue ourselves in circles and the work still has to be done!
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