[Fwd: Re: [ros-dev] Fwd: Status update and voting]

[Filip Navara]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>Hi,
>
>--- Filip Navara <xnavara at volny.cz> wrote:
>  
>
>>I doubt someone would vote for me, but if it would be collective 
>>decision I'll not object. (Personally I have two candidates for the 
>>position that I would propably choose from in the voting...)
>>    
>>
>
>Well I am divided on who I would vote for as the people I named would all be great in the role but
>I would like to hear something alone the lines of
>
>"If I was KC I would try to implement the following development method, rules, reactos coffee
>maker, etc...."
>
I personally think that I can help with specific problems in specific 
occasions and I'm not considering myself as a leader. In past there were 
some occasions where I wanted to step in ... the Alex's misc. branch and 
the recent Alex vs. Hartmut arguing ... and guess what? I haven't done 
that and that itself makes me bad for the position :)

So far all the problems were eventually settled down... the Alex's 
branch was merged patch by patch to trunk and we had a voting about 
whether it's good idea to allow such branches in future. And here's the 
point ... every problem so far was solved in a (relatively) civil way 
and it got even better with the introduction of voting system. So what's 
left for the coordinator?

I don't think there's a need for the coordinator at all except for very 
rare occasions ... actually we have been living without a coordinator 
for quite some time (Rex and Vizzini were mostly away). If there would 
be something I can see that needs to be improved it's the management of 
branches and distribution of the developer manpower. We have there New 
Cache Manager, EXT2FS and few other gems which unfortunately can't be 
merged due to some small bugs / unimplemented features ... while other 
people spend time rewritting stuff that works. Of course as we're FOSS 
community there's no way to force people to do something that they don't 
want to work on unless you have a congenital authority, a lot of spare 
money or a bunch of ROS mugs (some people know what I mean ;-). Also I 
would like to see the Kernel Status Reports back (for those who don't 
know what I'm talking about, see http://mok.lvcm.com/reactos/kernel/) 
though I'm not sure if it can be realized ...

SO DON'T VOTE FOR ME UNLESS YOU JUST WANT SOMEONE WHO WILL SETTLE 
ARGUMENTS. ;-)

Let's see if someone will have creative presentaion or present some nice 
visions ... but I won't do that myself. My big candidates are Alex and 
Hartmut, so let's see. :)

- Filip

P.S. Extra points for those offering ROS mugs as a reward for work :)

"Here at ReactOS, the whole kernel team is nuts!!!" ~ Rex Jolliff