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I would like to see the additional involvement (hiring/contracting/whatever) of some key players that have been lacking over the course of the last year: | I would like to see the additional involvement (hiring/contracting/whatever) of some key players that have been lacking over the course of the last year: | ||
* A project manager to help relieve the pressure developers feel from all angles | * A project manager to help relieve the pressure developers feel from all angles | ||
* A | * A lead to set reasonable requirements and standards | ||
* A developer core, probably contractors, that is paid -- and held accountable for progress of a structured rewrite | * A developer core, probably contractors, that is paid -- and held accountable for progress of a structured rewrite | ||
* A QA lead for assuring validity of submitted extensions and handling incoming support questions | |||
Additional resources would help set aside much-needed development time and organization of the project that has served as a major obstacle to progress in the past year. | Additional resources would help set aside much-needed development time and organization of the project that has served as a major obstacle to progress in the past year. | ||
The bottom line is we tried to get everything done with a volunteer developer base, but that fell through because of lack of resources -- and we can't afford to keep things going the way they are. | The bottom line is we tried to get everything done with a volunteer developer base, but that fell through because of lack of resources -- and we can't afford to keep things going the way they are. | ||
What ended up happening is that all of the above responsibilities fell on morgamic for one reason or another, and one person (a volunteer) simply can't get all of this accomplished alone with only limited volunteer help as an asset. | |||
== What do we want to do? == | == What do we want to do? == | ||