On Thursday, August 20, 2015 08:18:12 AM Bernelle Verster wrote: >Hi all > >TLDR; This is tough, we need good communications, but we need to also >work to reduce useless continuous discussion. Share everything. > >Learning from the past, this is how I suggest we could do things in >future. I hope this is stating the obvious, but we've already slipped >up on this so it bears reiteration. (I know I have and I'm very >sorry). > > * When we speak to someone who may be interested in joining the team, >especially when they have a defined skillset and hence may by default >want to take a more individual approach to the task(s) they'd be >involved in, please email the team introducing this person, your >expectations of their involvement, and if relevant the background of >your relationship, to put things in context. This is to put everyone >on the same page to help get to know new teammates and where they're >coming from ideologically. > > * When we brief someone on the Debian project, and DebConf, please >try to inform everyone on when you're briefing them, be it over email, >IRC, or in person. It won't always be possible to have everyone come >along or join in, and based on the history of the working relationship >or friendship or whatever, this may already be a fuzzy situation. But >just so we all know. > > * Save every little piece of work that you do on DebConf somewhere >accessible, preferably git. Save it there from the very beginning, >from the idea stage. > > * When you think something is missing, or you have even the most >vague discomfort, please talk about it, with anyone you feel >comfortable on e.g. IRC, or via email to the whole team. Keeping the >timeline up to date, using previous DebConfs to guide it, should help >a lot with this. > > * Please bear in mind that we have to compromise between everyone >being involved in everything all of the time and implementing things >on time. Having interim deadlines included on the timeline will help >with keeping things on time. +1 to entire mail. -N @DebCamp/Conf 15 in Germany
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