[maemo-community] Sprint meeting & process

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:10, Jeremiah
Foster<jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 16:44, Andrew Flegg wrote:
>
>> We haven't formalised exactly the process by which the 6-month
>> contracts would get renewed (or not); but suffice to say "having a
>> job" is a pretty big carrot and "not having a job" is a pretty big
>> stick, IMHO.
>
> Andrew, this is a threat. I think this is the wrong way to go about
> getting people to report their status on the wiki.

It is not intended as a threat: as I say, I don't know how Nokia will
decide whether to continue funding positions, or renew individuals'
contracts (hell, I haven't even seen the contracts, nor do I want to).

However, the point of this discussion is to try and find 1) how to get
people to report their status, 2) whether the wiki is the right place
and - as Dave's raised - 0) why we're reporting status in the first
place.

I know I've certainly been very frustrated by the lack of updates on
the wiki when trying to organise a sprint meeting so that minutes and
documentation can be accurate and comprehensive. If the participants
aren't taking it seriously, or it's not proving valuable, or it's not
being done for some other reason, why should I give up _my_ free time
to try and shepherd a flawed process?

Cheers,

Andrew

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