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Llorean:
I believe though that in the context of Debian, people have probably volunteered for those areas of responsibility (and then been accepted by the maintainers of the project) rather than being assigned them directly.

GodEater:
I can't see how that would work in any other way. You can't take a pool of volunteers and have someone say "Hey you, you're in charge of documentation now".

If someone did that to me here I'd tell them where to go.

Confuseling:
My point was just that it does happen in larger organisations, at least in a small way, where whatever intangible benefits (such as prestige) to taking part outweigh the desire to 'do your own thing'.

If the people at the top of the Debian security team say "We need this thing patched NOW!", quite a few people probably jump up and take notice. They're volunteers, but they're still under direction.

However, Rockbox isn't Debian - which isn't to suggest that either model is better, they're just different.

-ETA-

Not sure if that's really clear. I guess what I'm saying is it's a question of 'granularity' as well. Nobody would put you on the Debian security team without your permission, in that sense you're both entirely correct - but once you've put yourself on it you forego the freedom to code whatever you feel like coding.

Bit off topic this... Sorry, I'll shut up.  :P

chrisjj:

--- Quote from: GodEater on April 29, 2010, 10:40:24 AM ---I can't see how that would work in any other way. You can't take a pool of volunteers and have someone say "Hey you, you're in charge of documentation now".

If someone did that to me here I'd tell them where to go.

--- End quote ---
I can well imagine Rockbox people might want to take on documentation responsibility, esp if it was divided appropriately. E.g. a user knowledgeable on a particular player could accept the job of overseeing that wiki sub-tree. When I started looking at the Sansa e200 docs I found stuff that had been written about all then-known versions , but invalidated by the subsequent AMS/v2 port. I see a coder who made the v2 port didn't feel the desire to make the required amends to the existing material, so I'd say that would probably get done promptly if there was in place a Sansa Wiki Guy/Gal.

Llorean:
What, exactly, do you think is stopping people currently from volunteering for these types of jobs?

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