Summary:
6 +1, no 0, no -1
Welcome as a "OSS Product Manager" for the XWiki project!
Thanks
-Vincent
On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
Most of you already know Guillaume Lerouge since he's been active on
these lists. Guillaume is interested and willing to act as our first
OSS Product Manager. This is not a role that exists in many OSS
projects. Actually I've never encountered it before but I can see
value in it and I think we should recognize this role in the same
manner that we recognize the role of Committer.
See some rationale here:
http://www.productbeautiful.com/2008/05/02/why-product-management-is-open-s…
So I see Guillaume's role as:
* Monitoring the lists for users requests/needs
* Talking to people who implement XWiki out there in the wild, in
companies and see what their needs are
* Monitoring the enterprise wiki landscape for new features we
should have
* Comparing XWiki with other wiki engines out there
Guillaume should provide us devs with visibility on the most wanted
features and help us prepare our roadmaps.
Regarding votes I propose that we has the same binding votes as
Committers (obviously since Guillaume is not technical he probably
won't vote on tech matters). Example of domain where he could vote
on: UI decisions.
This is what Guillaume has already started doing for some time but
we've never really voted him in this role so I propose to fix this
now and make this role official.
Here's my +1
Thanks
-Vincent
PS: This doesn't mean that any of us shouldn't do this too. Quite
the opposite. It just means that Guillaume is willing to spend a lot
of his time working on this.
PPS: Disclaimer: Guillaume is working for XWiki SAS. For more
details on the XWiki project and XWiki SAS see
http://massol.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWikiSASAndOpenSource