Hello olegil@samfundet.no
If everyone is going to say "I can only work on this 2 hours each third weekend", then we might as well just shut down the list and go our separate ways right now. This isn't nbtscan we're talking about, it's OpenOffice.org. 1.5GB of source code (once uncompressed).
You don't have to convince me about that, but my point was more that, for instance, having an IRC session at 3:00 at night on a tuesday isn't a good idea :)
You keep forgetting about three things: 1: When we're 60 people (which we are, give or take a bit), EVERYONE doesn't have to be in EVERY session. 2: Time zones. As I mentioned, they can be a bit problematic, and my suggested solution was to set up small sessions 14 times a week and have everyone manage to attend half, rather than having three sessions every weekend and have half of us attend all of them. "Attend" can mean anything from being op and/or secretary to just browsing the backlog once every 5 minutes to see if there's anything worthwhile to contribute to. 3: If it's important enough, you'll MAKE time ;-)
It's still just a suggestion, though. And since I'm in my brainstorming phase I would really like you to stop interrupting :-PMuch better for the management team to have an extra idea which is thrown away than for them to not have any ideas at all. Of course, if we're suddenly talking about 2 million extra ideas... ;-) Timeline as I see it is:
Next 36 hours: we appoint head honcho. He immediately begins assembling ideas and a team, and also contacts OpenOffice.org to formally let them know we're here. within two days: his team is ready. Those of us who have NOT been contacted, assume we're not going to get any special functions, and begin wading through code. Hopefully by now we've received reply from OO.org as to where we should begin (which codebase, which specific revision in CVS that compiles on Linux so we can begin looking into porting etc). We begin distributing tasks (dotProject actulaly seemed quite nice for this bit). next weekend: We have agreed on some basic rules of engagement and some major tasks to be done for the next few weeks/months, and start looking for more people to join in our various sbu-project teams.
Opinions may wary, but hopefully the goals are similar :-)
I sent a list of 5 things to be done the othr day, maybe we should expand on those a bit as we begin to understand what we've gotten ourselves into the next few days. I have already offered to host mailing list, SVN server and write a PHP based session-planner. Once the management team is functional they will have to make a decision whether to take me up on some of those or not. Until then I don't think you can decide for us ;-) I also wish the management team seriously consider some of my thoughts regarding how we can best use IRC sessions. This was hopefully the last tirade from me for a while. Am cleaning the apartment and eating dinner the next few hours, then we shall see what we shall see. I was gonna do some work today as well, but fuck that ;-)