User:Usul/Disburden cp15

Currently our maintainer user:cp15 is the most central person in the project which leads to heavy load at one single point. Thus I like to suggest to the community to assist him on several tasks to give him more time on coding and fundamental project management.

cp15

non technical

• create ressources (GFX, UI, translations, map styles...)
• create enduser documentation
• create dev documentation
• give support to endusers
• roadmap/release planning
• public relations (share news, answer pr requests, ...)
• promotion
• moderate user services (wiki, forum, trac, twitter, fb, irc, ...)
• test releases
• planning events
• introducing new coders to the codebase/build toolchain
• finances (aquiering donations)

technical

• maintaining servers and services (build, svn, maps, wiki, forum, trac, ...)
• maintain codebase/coordinate edits
  • GUIs
  • GFX drivers
  • Map data backeneds
  • Search module
  • Routing
  • GPS backends
  • Speech
  • Configs
  • Bookmarks
  • Platform ports

What we can do

user:Usul

• give support to endusers
• wiki (incl. administration)
• translation (german)
• ressource management(map icons, map style,configs,internal GUI menu)
• release testing (Ubuntu/Debian, OpenPandora, maybe WinCE, maybe WinXP)

later:

• GUI code (GTK)
• OSM map driver /maptool

user:Xenos1984

• give support to endusers
• maintain TomTom port
• release testing
• debugging / bug fixes

user:Pini

The biggets issues I see regarding the project are:

• roadmap / release, both long (major releases) and short term (point releases)
• bug triaging

Usability:

• split and factorize navit.xml
• and/or allow overriding global default preferences with users' navit.xml defining only the customized bits

Features:

• drop propritetary map formats which can't be supported on the long term (garmin, marcopolo)

Packaging:

• ok to drop autotools (the Debian package builds with cmake)
• please provide a synthetic changelog