Re: [gentoo-dev] July Council Meeting: Requested Agenda Item

[George Shapovalov]

субота, 10. червень 2006 04:28, Christel Dahlskjaer Ви написали:
> I would like to ask that the Council discuss the current state and
> future of the GWN at their next meeting.
Hah? What has concil to do with this? Is it going to mandate "GWN be better" 
and it magically turns into some other thing? Why do you think there is 
malicious intent here at all?

[skipping the listing]
All these problems can be explained very simply - a lack of manpower. As I 
understand, GWN now is a one-man endeavour and Ulrich was pointing this out 
himself and literally yelling for help! Many many times! Over approx last 6 
month or so..

Do we want a more reliable and representative GWN? Of course!
How we can get there? Well, stand up and help! Involving council is not going 
to do anything besides starting yet another pointless burocratic endeavor. 
Well, I suspect it won't do even that - I am pretty sure council is going to 
just throw out this "claim" even if you officially start it. They can of 
course mandate some more action, but what would be the point? If there are no 
people willing to stand up, then who will listen to it?

So, to conclude this thing. The only way GWN is going to improve, is if some 
more people will "join the ranks" and start writing/editing GWN entries. I'd 
say a team of 3 people is usually sufficient, but we need more like 7 so that 
three are "available" for more than a first month :) (this is based on my 
experience with organazing Russian transation team in its early days), plus a 
steady stream of at least one new dev joining/two month, to compensate for 
people droppig out. This should also have an effect of draft GWN published at 
least a day in advance, instead of a few hours, so that the rest of us will 
be able (and will ;)) take a look at it and make corrections..

George 

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