Ben and I have come up with a tentative list of XEmacs `jobs', or
areas of responsibility. The idea here is that the people listed as
`Primary' are responsible for any problems in this area. However, in
the event that all of the listed Primaries disapppear and become
unresponsive to email, the Secondary agrees to step up and take over,
at least temporarily. Please suggest changes and additions to this
list. It will be wonderful if people would volunteer for unfilled
positions.
Position Primary Secondary
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Beta Release Maintainer Martin Buchholz
Stable Release Maintainer Vinnie Shelton
Jobs-List-Maintainer Ben Wing
Japanese Liaison Stephen Turnbull
Core Patch Tender Jan Vroonhof Andy Piper, Martin Buchholz
Package Patch Tender Andreas Jaeger Martin Buchholz
CVS Manager Jareth Hein
Mailing List Manager Jason Mastaler Martin Buchholz
Webmaster John Anderson
Bug Tracker
Miscellaneous Documentation
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Lisp Reference Manual Martin Buchholz
XEmacs User Manual Martin Buchholz
Internals Manual Martin Buchholz
PROBLEMS Martin Buchholz
FAQ Martin Buchholz
NEWS Hrvoje Niksic Martin Buchholz
README README Martin Buchholz
Coding Projects
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Coding Standards Martin Buchholz
Portable Dumper Olivier Galibert
Windows support
Configure support Martin Buchholz
Mule Ben Wing, Martin Buchhlz, Olivier Galibert
GUI support Andy Piper
Redisplay Andy Piper
Ben and Martin
Comments on proposed JOBS list:
Ben> Japanese Liaison Stephen Turnbull
This is, uh, condescending. We don't need a Japanese Liaison. We've
got several Japanese who can liaise for themselves. Although some
Japanese do have problems with the XEmacs development process as a
matter of cultural differences, we should consider that the exception,
not the rule, and deal with it ad hoc, as a matter of courtesy when
the issue comes up in individual cases.
What we do need is an I18N Liaison for Mule. Somebody whose job it is
to do what Hrvoje has done for Latin-2, but for environments that
don't have core developers who speak them natively. Somebody's whose
job it is to be aware of which language environments have what degree
of support. Which language environments have no beta testers (and
maybe try to find some). What environments the Mule guys at ETL and
perhaps elsewhere are adding.
Further suggestions as to what an I18N Liaison could do are welcome.
(Maybe do Mule base and language environment package maintenance? But
see below.)
If that job is on offer, I'll take it.
Ben>
Possible job to give a name: Package Release Maintainer. I would
think that SUMOs and the package-list, and similar responsibilities,
probably have quite different timing and other requirements from
either the Stable Release or the Beta Release series of the core code.
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