Community issues
Posted: 28 Dec 2011, 20:44
(I'm posting here as I want more people to read this, but still in the private section.)
Data from the old forums was there, but yet it wasn't used to restore forums. Even now there are people who come back and their account doesn't exist.
Archive of the old forums is gone. There was the information I still may be in need of (for example, working code snippets), even not speaking of other users.
Forums are (or, at least, were for a long time) unusable and practically reject possible contributors/developers. Two months of posts being unapproved isn't a joke. When there're moderators around, it's slightly better, but still not perfect. Also many topics left unanswered or answered incorrectly or just with not related to original post answers.
Wiki is the same, and since forums are unusable no random people (excluding really dedicated to using openkore) would ever edit anything.
srcdoc (and some other documentation) from the old site isn't hosted at openkore.com anymore. I think it was hosted before.
No normal bugtracker or task managament or any real planning.
No useful documentation for developers to start with.
Maybe somebody (not as a really dedicated developer, but more like as community - and developer community - manager) would be interested in solving and preventing these and other possible issues. That includes forcing decisions needed on openkore administration too. Otherwise IMO openkore really riscs to fall apart even before RO does. Maybe it already did, as delay since the last "release" is quite big and we still have issues in trunk nobody works at (guess which ones, without normal bugtracker!) which kind of prevent us from releasing the next version.
Sadly, current "project leader" doesn't seem to be organizing anything here. He does many things behind the curtains and contributes a lot of useful stuff, but shouldn't project leader's work be something different? Well, maybe it's all behind the curtains, idk lol.
P.S. Rewrite of openkore (these branches which do exist for a while) isn't very possible with available manpower atm. And bugtracker etc issue arises there as well.
Data from the old forums was there, but yet it wasn't used to restore forums. Even now there are people who come back and their account doesn't exist.
Archive of the old forums is gone. There was the information I still may be in need of (for example, working code snippets), even not speaking of other users.
Forums are (or, at least, were for a long time) unusable and practically reject possible contributors/developers. Two months of posts being unapproved isn't a joke. When there're moderators around, it's slightly better, but still not perfect. Also many topics left unanswered or answered incorrectly or just with not related to original post answers.
Wiki is the same, and since forums are unusable no random people (excluding really dedicated to using openkore) would ever edit anything.
srcdoc (and some other documentation) from the old site isn't hosted at openkore.com anymore. I think it was hosted before.
No normal bugtracker or task managament or any real planning.
No useful documentation for developers to start with.
Maybe somebody (not as a really dedicated developer, but more like as community - and developer community - manager) would be interested in solving and preventing these and other possible issues. That includes forcing decisions needed on openkore administration too. Otherwise IMO openkore really riscs to fall apart even before RO does. Maybe it already did, as delay since the last "release" is quite big and we still have issues in trunk nobody works at (guess which ones, without normal bugtracker!) which kind of prevent us from releasing the next version.
Sadly, current "project leader" doesn't seem to be organizing anything here. He does many things behind the curtains and contributes a lot of useful stuff, but shouldn't project leader's work be something different? Well, maybe it's all behind the curtains, idk lol.
P.S. Rewrite of openkore (these branches which do exist for a while) isn't very possible with available manpower atm. And bugtracker etc issue arises there as well.