Thank you both, again, for your answers!
Hope it helps
Yes it definitely did, and could cast aside most of my uncertainties.
I have just a few quick remarks and follow-ups:
> In a related matter, many of the role descriptions
of the core developers contain manager and leadership titles.
Hmm. Do you have a link? AFAIK we just have
committers.
I'm sorry, I guess my mistake here was not taking the separation
between XWiki SAS and
XWiki.org into consideration. I was referring to
http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Company/Team, where three Project
Managers, a Team Leader, a Communication Manager, an Administration
Manager, a Support & Documentation Manager, a Research Manager, etc.
are mentioned, so I thought these roles might be relevant. The same
group of people working on the same projects in two different ways,
this is still a bit hard for me to grasp.
> What, in practice, are the main tasks of the
people managing the development?
There's nobody managing the development ;)
We're auto-managed.
I see your point. So everyone (who is interested and dedicated) takes
an equal part in making decisions? Do you think these collegial
agreements would still hold if the base of contributors was
significantly larger or wider spread, and therefore incorporated more
diverse ideas about the project? Or would the system have to be
adapted to scale successfully?
Kind regards,
Martin