[Quickget-develop] Tasks for the development

[Aegir S. <Aeg...@Su...>]

Hi, All:

I am very excited to see so many responses from all of you. And it 
really a big problem for me to decide who will take which tasks:) Your 
guys have different technology background and we are far away from each 
other...

In order to assign the tasks fairly, I think out some principles to 
assign these tasks.
1. Basically 2 - 3 people to do the same task
More people to do the same task will lower the effiency and add some 
unnecessary communications. I think 2-3 people are the best for 
communication and pair programming.
2. Assign a stake holder to make the final decision
For some design tasks, it is very difficult to make all the developers 
to agree with the design. And generally, there are many ways to get the 
same destination. So I think it is the time for the stake holder ( an 
experienced developer) to shutdown the discussion and put the design 
into implementation. It will save us a lot of time.
3. Based on the technology background
 From the short description, I see somebody has some little experience 
with java programming. To these guys, I think we'd better assign them a 
little easier tasks to let them familiar with the java language. After 
they familiar with the project, we can change their tasks to more 
chanllenging tasks.
4. One person at most gets 2 tasks
This will make your tasks traceable.

With the above principle in mind, I assign the tasks as below:
Rohan -> ftp support design
              gui-show download progress graphically
Ramit  -> ftp support design
              http features
Suresh-> IE / navigator plug-ins
              ftp support design
Naman, Pratik-> xml configuration
              tools->configuration dialog refine
Steve Chang -> ftp support
                        i18n
Alex-> ant script

 From my point of view, I think the two tasks ("ftp support design" and 
"show download progress graphically") are chanllenging. And as I said, 
for "ftp support design" task, there are 4 people involving this task, 
and we should assign a stake holder to make the final decision. I think 
Ramit will be the right person for the stake holder since he has lots of 
experience in java.

If you have any concerns or ideas for the task assignment, please feel 
free to tell me. And please update the status of the task at sf.net  
when you begin the work.

Regards,
Aegir