Re: The future of BZFlag.

[Dave B. <dbr...@me...>]

My opinion is that you, Jeff, would be the ideal candidate day-to-day 
project manager as you seem to be the main and consistent development 
voice in BZFlag over the past several epochs of time.I think that you 
both understand the history of the project, architecture and vision and 
can drive it forward.

+1 Jeff

-dave


On 05/10/2011 08:26 PM, Jeffrey Myers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As you may or may not be aware, development on the BZFlag project has
> been declining to nearly nothing over the past year. In order to see
> if there was some way to get any kind of development moving again I
> have had a recent chat with Tim Riker the project’s maintainer about
> how we could get BZFlag moving again.
>
> As part of this discussion the idea of breaking the maintainership
> into 2 parts came up. The idea would be to have Tim continue to be the
> Copyright holder and Intellectual Property Manager for the project,
> and a new position be created for managing day to day development and
> the production of releases. This would allow project developers to
> have a “go to” person for development issues, and allow Tim to
> continue spending the limited time he has on the project on the
> important ( read boring  ) things that he’s already doing.
>
> I offered to do this job myself as I am a bit frustrated with the lack
> of movement in any direction for the project and Bullet Catcher
> recently has had some ideas on how to push some form of release ahead.
> These ideas have the best chance of working if the entire project is
> behind them and has some level of management to make sure they get
> done.
>
> Tim requested that we get some kind of consensus for who should be
> given this position and I agreed. So you are getting this email. That
> means you have committed some code in the past year or so, or were
> part of our last Google summer of code maintainer group.
>
> So… the idea is for everyone to comment on the idea, suggest people
> for the job, or say who you would endorse. I know Blast007 (Scott
> Wichser) has also expressed interest in this position and helping the
> project move forward but we have not heard of anyone else saying they
> want the job. Any other candidates?
>
> The position would be one where you would be responsible for getting
> releases out, going over code/design issues with developers, and
> working with Tim when conflicts arose. This includes things like
> making ( or having someone make) release roadmaps and the like so that
> developers can have a clearer picture of the next release.
>
> Let the discussion begin.
>
> Jeff Myers (jef...@gm...)
>
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