[sldev] Request for comment : SLDev Workgroup

[Ryan Williams]

On Apr 2, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Laurent Laborde wrote:

> 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 :
> ---------------------
> * 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
> -------------
> * 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
> ----------------------------------
> * 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 think this is an awesome idea!

It seems that groups in Second Life would be a great way to organize  
this.  I mean, we're all in Second Life all the time anyway, yes?   
Just use group notices and IM!

I don't think that this is something that should be structured top- 
down.  If you have a project that you want to work on, just create a  
group for it!

Having said that, for efforts like wiki gardening that don't have a  
clear boundary and/or leadership role, should us Lindens take the  
lead and create/maintain those groups?  That doesn't seem ideal to  
me, but basically what I'm saying is that someone should create the  
groups that you listed, and if no one else does, maybe we should.    
(Note that I'm not saying "me" :-P)

Is there a reason that we haven't started these groups already?  If  
it's because no one wants to take the responsibility, then let's  
remove that hurdle.

Let me know if I'm missing some other discussion somewhere, I haven't  
scoured the wiki for this topic or anything, so I might be  
embarrassingly out of the loop here.

-RYaN


> 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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