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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs