to-do list?

Tammy Fox tfox at redhat.com
Fri Feb 27 06:39:41 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 23:21, Darrin Auxier wrote:
> Dave Pawson wrote:
> 
> > At 02:26 25/02/2004, Tammy Fox wrote:
> >
> >> As people email me asking for tutorials to write, I have been suggesting
> >> topics. The problem is that I don't hear back from most people after we
> >> agree on a topic. I will go through my email tomorrow and send out an
> >> email with a list of topics and volunteers. It would help if the
> >> volunteers could give a status report of their tutorial. If people don't
> >> respond, then we can assume that they changed their mind, and someone
> >> else can volunteer for that topic.
> >
> >
> > Unsure how it would be received,
> > but if I saw, on the docs webpage somewhere,
> >
> > topic X, Dave Pawson (started 1.1.04)
> >
> > Then I'd be tempted to assume it was still down to me?
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
> > regards DaveP
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Good idea, I like the status report requirement too.  Nothing stringent, 
> just a "still working on it" if nothing else.
> If I was working on a topic and I got hit by a bus, somehow I doubt that 
> my family's first thought would be "we need to alert the Fedora List"
> There are a million other reasons why someone might stop (or delay) work 
> on their project, and this would allow someone else to pick up if need be.
> So, if there is no status update after <x amount of time (1 month?)> 
> then that topic would be up for grabs.
> Some sort of communication attempt prior to reassigning it would be good 
> manners.

Sure. I am working on a format for the list as well as the best format
to put it in to make it easy to maintain.

Tammy





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