Project Roles

Holding page for Project Roles -- as per PM's message on [pmwiki-users], Any hope for 2.2.0 stable release?:

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:14:44PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Petko Yotov wrote:

>> I'll make a longer and more precise statement in a day or two, about
>> what should be expected from me, but making it easy for translators to
>> prepare the documentation for a release is on my priority list.

> Speaking to your role as release manager, I suggest that you document how
> you want to do the process. In my experience that'll help you and us to
> do this more efficiently. It can be a quite simple documentation, just a
> list of the steps.

I already have a procedure in place and a script that automates the task of generating a new release -- including parts of the initial draft of the release announcement. I've been using it for years. So, we primarily need to document how one uses that release script. :-)

> I think it'd also be a good idea to write down what you think the
> different roles will do, as you will now have to differentiate between
> yourself as release manager, developer and user... not that easy in my
> experience.

I agree that we should document the roles somewhere. If only we had a good way to organize such documentation that could be easily upda.... Oh. :-)

I suggest we start a page at http://www.pmwiki.org/PmWiki/ProjectRoles .