Vision for the first semester of 2016

Twenty Two via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Jan 28 01:10:28 PST 2016


On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 02:36:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 00:28:26 UTC, Twenty Two wrote:
>> Parkinson's Law: work expands so as to fill the time available 
>> for its completion.
>>
>> [...]
>
> I agree.  Some of the core team uses trello for this:
>
> https://trello.com/b/XoFjxiqG/active
>
> However, that's not really meant for noobs and a lot of the 
> core team, including Walter, doesn't really use it.

Judging by the activity log, it's mostly just Martin... poor dawg.

Putting something together people will actually use is pretty 
hard, almost as hard as keeping the momentum to get people to 
keep using whatever you've put in place. Trello's not a bad tool 
but it's useless if there's no traction and no one's being 
reminded to use it. It's hard to attract contributors if you 
don't spell out who/what/when/where/how and funnel them all to 
the one place.

Maybe the core team could discuss among themselves what kind of 
workflow they think would really bring out their potential 
productivity and attract more hands to lighten the load. It seems 
unfair that some people get lumped with doing big jobs purely 
because there isn't really a good way to ask someone else to do 
pieces of it for them.

I'm certain there are lots more people who would get involved if 
only there was a lower barrier to entry. Something not over 
complicated and visible would really move things along, I think.


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