Re: Future of JEDI? -OR- Where are all the leaders gone?

Hi Oliver,

first:  I think this should have been discussed in the jedi.general 
newsgroup.  I don't think the mailing lists have much visibility nowadays.

>1. After I found the "new website" I was amazed that it contained much more
>current information. However, this website cannot be easily found (IMO) and
>perhaps the old website should forward (however, via HTTP forwarding or
>other means) to the new one.
>
>2. Furthermore we had discussed with Alan about the future of JDARTH. Since
>he wants to put it on SF.net as part of a bigger project providing several
>developer tools. However, no (visible?!) progress was made since.
>  
>
I am not sure JDARTH is worth to be developed further.  From what I have 
seen, FPC's h2pas tool seems more promising.

>How about delegation of such tasks? I've read in some book that the best
>team leaders "delegate" and don't do everything themselves. We are wasting
>precious time - and this includes the man-hours of volunteers.
>  
>
The operative word here is "volunteers" (for unpaid work!).  Those 
usually are picky about what they want to do.  If there are only few 
(that's fact for most JEDI projects), unpopular tasks simply aren't 
likely to be taken.

>3. A team leader should be mainly responsible for administrative tasks of
>the project, for helping new members, for delegating tasks, for observing
>changes and possibly givong a direction to the project. He may, of course,
>delegate tasks to himself (as a developer), but mainly he should be there to
>assign tasks and so on.
>  
>
"Should", yes.  Reality is different:  Typically the team leader is the 
one that feels responsible and thus ends up doing the unpopular jobs.

>My point is, that we could work so much more efficiently by just using the
>"resources" (man-hours of volunteers) *efficiently*. This means delegation,
>delegation, delegation ...
>
>Tell me if you believe my view is incorrect. I want to learn your opinion,
>otherwise I could have sent this to myself ;)
>  
>
See above. 
Personally I believe that the most effective improvement  to the JEDI 
development process would be the use of a Wiki to develop and document 
ideas and concepts.
Mailing lists/newsgroups are not really fit for that, because they don't 
provide means to help in condensing, elaborating and linking ideas.
Furthermore, anything posted to groups will ultimately drop below the 
time horizon of reader attention.

Greetings, Robert

>BTW: Although not being the only team captain of jedi-apilib I contacted
>"Phil" as was written on the (old!) website. No bounce and no reply,
>however. Any ideas?
>  
>



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