Roundup of the Cast (Who has expressed an interest in what parts of the project)

--- Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc@doink.com> wrote:
> 
>     Since Maxima is moving from one person being in charge of
>     most things to something more distributed, I suggest that we
>     do a few things before answering the question.

OK, I've gone back through the archives and tried to list who said they
were interested in doing what.  A ? indicates that I'm not sure if they
are wanting to be active coders, but have expressed interest in the
coding phase and have useful information/code to contribute.  Sorry if
I missed anyone, or put anything down wrong.

>     - Make an educated guess at the number of people with coding
>       skills that would contribute to development.  

Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com  (C programming)
Raymond Toy toy@rtp.ericsson.se  (Elliptical integral stuff)
?Richard Fateman fateman@cs.berkeley.edu (Wrote some of original code)
?Jay Belanger belanger@truman.edu (Some elisp experience, not expert)
?Tuukka Toivonen tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi (Readline support)
Pedro Fortuny P.Fortuny@qmw.ac.uk (package writing in maxima's
language)
Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes lizardo@urbi.com.br (Mac OS X stuff)
David Holmgren DavidHolmgren@smarttech.com (optimization,
nonlinear least-squares, wavelets, etc.)
Vadim V. Zhytnikov vvzhy@mail.ru  (Lisp coding, computer algebra
systems)

>     - Make an educated guess at the number of people with
>       software development administration skills that would
>       contribute to development.  I don't recall this skill-set
>       being addressed here before.

Umm... I'm not quite sure what you mean here.  Do you mean people who
can direct the overall flow of the project, prioritize areas that are
weak, etc?

>     - Make an educated guess at the number of people that could
>       test, package, distribute, document.

Testing

Boris Veytsman borisv@lk.net (also mailing lists/website?)
Probably a lot of others here.


Documentation
        
Jay Belanger belanger@truman.edu
Paulo Ney de Souza desouza@math.berkeley.edu
Cliff Yapp smustudent1@yahoo.com
Pedro Fortuny P.Fortuny@qmw.ac.uk 

   - French stuff  (more or less independent team at the moment)
   Andr'e Jaccomard  (Translating Manual into French)
   Gosse Michel michel.gosse@freesbee.fr  (Doing French site)


RPM packages
Kevin Cosgrove kevinc@dOink.COM 

ALT Linux packages
Vadim V. Zhytnikov vvzhy@mail.ru

>     - Find another nicely running open source project of about
>       the same size, and see what they're doing that works, then
>       copy everything that's applicable.

We aren't sure what size we are yet, so that question is a bit tough. 
Hopefully this thread will resolve some of those questions.
 
>     I'd like to just answer the question, but I'm on a very small
>     development team (only four of us, two as administrators, all
>     four as developers) which runs through sourceforge.  I don't
>     know that our model is applicable, though it might be if the
>     number of developers, administrators, and other contributors
>     turns out to be that small.


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