[sldev] Request for comment : SLDev Workgroup

Laurent Laborde kerdezixe at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 19:22:13 PDT 2007


Hello !

I was talking with rob in his SL office and i came with an idea :
Setting up workgroups of people to work on a specific tasks needed for
the SLDev Project.

A lot of small but usefull tasks are left undone.
Mostly because people do not know it's needed, or because they focus
or some more glorious tasks like optimisation, debugging, patching,
...  But behind thoses hard tasks requiring expertise and experimented
coders, there is a lot of small tasks to be done and they do not need
a lot of expertise.

Here is a few samples of the tasks that could be done by some workgroups :

Jira reviewing :
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* closing/merging duplicated bug report.
* Trying to reproduce a bug and comment the report accordingly
* When possible, complete an incomplete bug report
* Creating a "Bug review bulletin" (weekly ? montly ?) to help the
developpers and user to find/view the current "hot" bug, reporting
fixed bug, ...
* Helping the developpers to focus on the most important bug.


Wiki l33t
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* Reworking some page according to the SL wiki guideline
* Indexing page with similar topic.
* Adding Wiki Link when possible
* looking for orphaned page
* Commenting wikipage with tags (like wikipedia)
* Review the "Talk Page" and editing the "Article" accordingly
* Googling expert to add a link to a reliable source when possible
(RFC, ISO, WhitePaper, SDK Reference (MSDN/ADC/ManPage/...), ...)

Code related subgroups
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* A subgroup to work on documenting the source code
* A subgroup to work on plateform specific code (win32, Mac, Linux)
* A subgroup of patch reviewer and tester. (check that the patch don't
add more bug than it correct)
* A subgroup of Benchmarker/Profiler for different platform/hardware
...

etc ... (please add/rework workgroups if needed)

Everyone could "subscribe" to more than one workgroup.
sldev should be kept as "master list" to synchronize the workgroups,
report work, request help, ... and of course the usual development
discussion.
Individual, or other workgroups, may request help from individuals or
other workgroups on sldev.

Each workgroup have their own wiki page and talk page.
Instead of adding a mailinglist for every group i suggest to create
newsgroup (like usenet).
I can setup a INN server on one of my high-bandwidth dedicated server
and i'm sure to find some other sysadmin (i'm unix sysad) to relay the
news feed.

I let the discussion grow here, we'll need to create a wiki page as
soon as we have enough material.

thank you ! i hope this idea will find some interest :)
Of course, i'm volunteer to work on thoses small task nobody want to
do, i like that and someone have to do it, huh ?

-- 
Kerunix Flan
Laurent Laborde


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