[Bf-funboard] Next steps!

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

At the projects site you'll have to make an account first, but that  
doesn't make you part of the projects itself. Projects at that site  
consist of Members; for coding projects it means being able to write  
code to the source tree. But also moderation access to forums, tracker  
etc. Members can be allowed in by someone with 'admin' status,  
typically the founders of a Project.

Everyone (even without account at the site) can suggest new features in  
a Tracker, or post comments or reviews. Also this mailing list still  
can serve as a main area for discussion on topics.

The purpose of this Functionality Board also is to give voice to  
Blender users. Your concerns about Parenting/Constraints are as valid  
as from any other maillist subscriber or project Member or admins.  
Hopefully, with the discussions here, and using the tracker, we can  
find a good means of communicating, and finding consensus on such  
topics.

People who'll become Member of the project, are volunteers who commit  
to do actual work as well. Like writing papers, reviewing submissions,  
and organizing the feedback in such a way that actual consensis can  
happen. The project then serves as a tool, not the platform where  
decisions are made.

My proposal was not to give 'voting right' to members only. Nor to the  
mailing list, nor as a poll at the forums. My proposal was to have this  
decided on a per case base... I don't really know as well yet. Just  
hope that we slowly get it all organized, and find out the best way to  
proceed.

-Ton-



On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 19:29 Europe/Amsterdam, Jean  
Montambeault wrote:

> Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>
>> 2.0 Anyone who's interested in actively reviewing proposals, can  
>> apply  as a Member in the 'bf-funboard' project at the site. This  
>> allows some  moderation features, defined by the project admins. To  
>> prevent too much  'noise' at this project, we'll require endorsement  
>> of at least one  other Member to get in.
>
> Errr... I'm already a member here so I guess that it's not what you  
> mean by 'Member'. You probably mean 'member of a reviewing board'...  
> and the endorsing Member would also be on that board ? So somebody  
> would have to be sort of an Original Member (I feel like I am some  
> kind of Free Mason ;D ) on whom the responsibility for the first  
> 'approvals' would rest ?
>
> Or what ? This is confusing.
>
> There are subjects on which I have little to say and yet what I have  
> to say may be important. What if somewhere along that contrived  
> process I don't get in ? For example I don't want to have the  
> parenting/grouping conveniences 'replaced' by constraints. Parenting  
> and constraints are two entirely different concepts, the former  
> relating to hierachical organization, the later relating to the  
> definition of an object properties.... blah blah blah
> This is important, yet I need to be sponsorized to get a chance to say  
> it ? What's that ?
>
> Jean
>
>
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