Below here just my two cents about the subjects in the first 2 pages of the topic, and what i sometimes see popping up in the forums .
I(Yep, just my opinion) think the ReactOS team needs a very soft tree based hierarchy.
With that i mean that the programmers stick to what they do best, program, the other tech guys what they know best, etc, all the way up the tree. I know you can't force someone to do things they do not wish to or can't do for any reason, valid or not. But then at least people would know to whom they should feel responsible to answer. And that would be a few people and not the whole world, since it would only be the people who are above you in the tree.
People are blaming the programmers they are not updating the wiki, the frontpage, and all the things they do except programming. But they too are just people who have a life outside of ReactOS and,(i assume), the main thing they joined the project for, and that is code... And that is what they should be doing. There are a lot of people that can't code but can do all the other stuff the programmers get blamed for, they don't want/can't/know how to do.
I've read some pretty amazing stories from non coders who can explain difficult programming stuff so good, even a 12 year old kid could understand what has been written.
As mentioned earlier in the topic and can be read in the forums, there are people in the community who are willing to jump on the train that is called ReactOS. Give them a chance. Some can code, some are techies, some are web developers, some critics (hey, come and shovel in some more of those coals
), some writers, and so on.So, to get to the point. Slowly let people enter the team and let them do their thing and let them feel the responsibility for the things they do. Let them have responsibilities to a couple of persons, not the whole world. That would keep the pressure down on the person in question and keep them more happy and willing to spend time on the project, and less why they didn't do what they promised they would at a certain time (and more of the blaming…, and shouting…, and perhaps even cursing). Don't push people when something is two days overdue, who knows what happened in that persons life ... ... Wait it out or, if you can't wait, do it yourself. And here's the one-liner again and keep it in mind: It's there when its there …
P.S. Who feels him/herself called to have a counseling session with the ReactOS team?
It looks like their's some kind of tension in the team which could become a … (fill that in yourself ..P.P.S. Someone could tab GvG on the shoulder and ask him to rejoin the project. What i've seen him writing on the forum, he did a good job here.
