[GRASS-PSC] PSC management

[Moritz Lennert]

On 18/11/16 01:55, Anna Petrášová wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> ...
>>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Roles
>>>>
>>>> Now I think that all new and confirmed members may contribute to this
>>>> question and edit the trac page directly (and report here)
>>>>  :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> The first email in this thread dates back to 2014 and no action has been
>>> taken,
>>
>> Right. Howver, we have a new PSC in place now.
>>
>>> from my POV we would need to discuss this thread, as well as other
>>> threads that were posed by members of the community, in a more interactive
>>> way, perhaps via IRC.
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>>
>>> Regarding the roles, I am sure other important roles
>>> can be individuated as well (e.g. GSoC coordinator/mentors).
>>
>> It is a draft wiki page which could be extended.
>> Regarding the GSoC mentors, I think that this works ok. If we really
>> need a designated GRASS GIS GSoC coordinator, I don't know.
>>
>>> At the same
>>> time, I'm not sure that these roles must be necessarily found withing the
>>> PSC.
>>
>> As I wrote in the trac wiki page
>>
>> "Note: a PSC member with a certain role can also delegate another
>> community member to share the workload "
>>
>>> Besides the activities that clearly fall currently on the shoulders of
>>> Markus and few others, I don't understand why we need a coordinator at all,
>>> since some activities seem to flow well without a designated coordinator, as
>>> Moritz pointed out. But I'm sure that to propose this, Markus, you must have
>>> your reasons.
>>
>> Yes: I want a more active PSC. Not sporadically but constantly.
>>
>>> Could we make a quick check of the situation, individuate the
>>> current issues and what are we trying to achieve (or which problems are we
>>> trying to solve) with this proposal? Thanks
>>
>> Here you go - the current situation (of course my completely biased
>> private view):
>>
>> * treasurer: done by Martin Landa and Markus Neteler
>> * release manager: done by Markus Neteler
>> * translation manager: done by Markus Neteler
>> * education manager: vacant
>> * press and marketing manager: : done by Markus Neteler
>> * documentation manager: : mainly done by Markus Neteler, with
>> contributions by Vero, Vaclav and others
>> * designer: Vincent Bain for flyer, Web site mainly done by Markus
>> Neteler lacking the migration to a new CMS
>> * trac bug report manager: mainly done by Markus Neteler with major
>> support by core developers
>> * testing manager: vacant? major efforts done by Sören and Vaclav
>> * GUI design manager: vacant? major efforts done by Anna, Vaclav, Martin
>>
>> This and that name appears too often :-)
>
>
> We suggest 'working groups' instead of managers, for some tasks it
> fits better and might put the pressure off if people want to join. I
> also added additional groups, which would be focused on specific
> tasks, such as Python 3.

I also added the task of moving from svn to git.

However, as sorry as I am about this, at this stage, I would not want to 
take on any of these responsibilities, as I'm afraid I wouldn't do them 
any justice currently. Obviously, I'll continue to work on the code, 
and, as always, am available for short term support on any issue. I hope 
this will change by the end of next year. Or maybe Anna's suggestion of 
collectivizing responsibilities on 2-3 developers per task could be a way.

I would strongly plead for some of the power-users to take over some of 
the non-coding responsibilities (i.e. translation, education, marketing, 
documentation, designer) !

Maybe we could send the list around on grass-dev/grass-user and invite 
non-PSC members to take over some these jobs ?

Moritz