role based SIG teams (Was: closing out old bugs of unmaintained releases)

[Jeff Spaleta]

 On Jan 8, 2008 12:53 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
 > Perhaps one option would be for non-programmer packagers to team up with
 > a programmer/sponsor to take on the task of package maintenance? Where
 > currently a package has one 'owner', there would instead be two rôles --
 > a 'packager' and potentially a separate 'hacker'. Those wanting to
 > package software which they can't fully maintain for themselves would
 > have to recruit a programmer-type to sign up for the job with them.


I wanted to follow-up on this with a little strawman diagram of how I
would want to incorporate David's idea into a larger role-based team
concept.. where the SIGs are the main organizational structure.

Take a look at this diagram of how I would like to see SIGs generally
structured in terms of team roles:

http://fedorapeople.org/~jspaleta/role-based-sigs/sig-teams.png

Generally speaking, I'd like to see Packaging SIG have people in place
for each of the 5 roles identified.  The connections between those
roles in the diagram represent generally normal role interactions that
would be expected between team members in a SIG.

Outside of that, there are Interaction Specialists who act as a
resource for all SIGs to deal with common tasks in certain areas.
I've populated the colored rectangles around the diagram with examples
of types of specialists for different tasks.  David would fall into
the arch-guru or programming-language-guru category and would most
likely be called on to help maintainers and developers who make up a
SIG to help with specific problems.  But on the other side of things,
artists and video experts would be resources for documenters and
user-helpers who wanted to create user facing materials like tours and
task howtos.

In this diagram the colored role circles are things we could
internally develop some sort of baseline training and recruitment
program for.  The colored specialist rectangles are things that would
be more difficult to provide training for internally..and we are
relying on expert skills that people have developed outside the
project.  Okay well feature wrangler is the exception to the rule
here...but you get the idea.

Thoughts?

-jef