Rajko,
with all due respect, I have not at all an interest in escalating this
conversation cause I don't see where this should lead to from a
"working together" perspective. That said, my general request holds
true: as the project coordinator of these efforts, I'd like to get at
least kind of a notice about planned structural changes (if they are
of that sort) and I'd like to have the opportunity to throw in my
0.02$ before they get implemented. This btw applies too very few
things but this particular one is a good example of what I'm talking
about and an involvement of mine hasn't taken place in the required
amount here. Whatever POV about specific things we may have, I hope
we're on the same page here. Are we?
Please see my answers (inline) below ..
2010/1/29 Rajko M.
On Thursday 28 January 2010 06:42:35 Rupert Horstkötter wrote:
Rajko,
2010/1/28 Rajko M.
: ... Actually I haven't heard a single word about the Transition_table until it was brought to my attention that way. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2010-01/msg00018.html call it list or table, that is mentioned, and here is your answer: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2010-01/msg00021.html
This is a discussion about the 20%/80% issue I identified in early January and while there is some conversation about the process, this is highly out of context here. Quite contrary to what you're trying to outline, I said the following (and this is pretty much in sync with what I say here): ---begin citation This is much appreciated. That said, please let us keep the current http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List and just adopt/merge it accordingly instead of coming up with a new page of review candidates. Reason: We promoted http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List at several places and sessions and I'd like to avoid too much confusion for Reviewers. Also we need to take care that the asterisks at http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_List are preserved. Still on the same page? ---end citation Actually I got no response here on the question "Still on the same page?" and that's where we are.
Again, there's no question that sending my complaints to the public list was a mistake, not intended at all and I'm really sorry for that. But still, I'm not aligned with the way the Transition_table has been established. Neither from the perspective of informing me as the coordinator of the big picture here nor from the perspective of communicating this to involved parties (existing and potential contributors).
"Transition guidelines" were updated to reflect "Transition table list" usage to new contributors. Old were notified and tested it as it was created on IRC channel.
Taking "Working DRAFT" notice in "Transition guidelines" every interested party should watch page for changes. All that is necessary is to click on link "Watch" above the page title and it will be added to personal watch list that can be accessed using link "My watchlist" at the top of each page, in line with "My talk | My preferences | My watchlist | My contributions | Log out".
As the project coordinator you should use that, to prevent future surprises. There will be more changes as what Remy wrote was known at the time of writing, so there is few more things that will change when we agree on them.
I'll consider this, thanks. That said, please keep me in the loop about further changes (if they are of that sort, certainly not every simple step you do cause you're doing very good and I'm pretty much aware) before actually implementing it. You say yourself "when we agree on them" and while I don't request having a voice about technical details, I strongly request having a voice about the coordinational feasibility of those. This is, in the end, my role and responsibility within this project. It's not about my very own personal interests, it's about the success of these efforts and the need to avoid discouraging contributions.
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What I complaining about, and I still stand there, is the following: 1. I had no knowledge at all about the changes prior to this conversation
See above, plus we can ask Frank to enable email notification, but you want to see only your watch list, not all recent changes. This can be set up in "My preferences".
2. The community/volunteers is/are dependent on tools we provide and may them be better (something I don't doubt here), we need to communicate this loudly especially if we previously were loud about the Wiki review at forums.o.o, lizards.o.o, news.o.o, the list and follows. Furthermore people get used to processes and we tried hard to explain these to various parties .. this assumed, it's at best semi-optimal to establish something new, especially in the way it has been done.
Agree, I'll see how to explain that
OK, that's anyways the central point of my argumentation.
3. To sum this up: It's hard to do my work if such structural changes (valuable or not) are done without any notification. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen one, neither in my inbox, at news, lizards, forums or elsewhere.
Communicating changes to the rest of the openSUSE infrastructure will eat up a little of my free time that I can give to the project (just as this email does), so I have to ask that someone to help with this.
Whether it eats time or not (and trust me I understand where you're coming from cause this email eats a lot of my time as well), it's needed to do this in order to manage something like this. A project with team members not communicating sufficiently is not what we need here, neither do we need (in the worst case) fighting team members and I'm pretty sure neither you nor me are interested in things like that cause this isn't helpful for our (btw, please remember this, collective) goal: being successful!
That all said, I'd appreciate a BIG notice on the very top of http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_Guidelines#Step_1_:_Articles_review in order to make them aware of the changes not only by reading and noticing "Hey, that has changed since I read this last time" but as a top notice before previously involved people jump in and get confused in trying to help us.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Transition_guidelines#Purpose and tell me is that kind of notice OK. We can consider also posts to ML and Forums, with explanation.
This is fine by me. Thanks for putting this up. Do you take care of the forums/ML (I'd feel this appropriate, while a few sentences are pretty much enough)?
IMHO, the only change that I can see right now that is influencing reviewers work will be "Transition List2" that will be converted to the table, and possible addition of tags for status column if someone comes on idea how it can make our life easier.
It is important to say that no change will be retroactive. What is done by old procedure it is done. People that will do physical transfer of files know both of them and know where to find articles.
OK, thanks for the explanation. This is what I'm looking for actually .. easy as is. Respectfully, R
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Last but not least, I'd herewith like to request that further changes of that sort are communicated better (at least I should know in order to be able to communicate it and to throw in my 0.02$ before they are published)
I hope that above answers your request.
-- Regards Rajko,
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