On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Lee Passey
<lee@novomail.net> wrote:
On Fri, January 27, 2012 12:19 pm, Greg Newby wrote:
> I favor some sort of meritocracy-based system for getting
> access to such elevated levels of responsibility.
I favor a democratic-based system where everyone gets all access until they
are "voted off the island."
The meritocracy cruft is I think one of the lessons to learn from
DP. It by definition reduces the resource pool. It's a demotivator.
It's built on negative feedback (a constraint) rather than positive
(an enablement). Better to focus development on providing immediate
accurate objective feedback so people can make their mistakes,
learn from them, and advance up the learning curve.
It would also be well to figure out ways to avoid creating ownership.
Anyone should be able to work on any part of any text, anytime.
Which probably means multiple people work from the same text
in parallel and at some point, or periodically, their work is compared
and the majority wins (perhaps a weighted majority?) This is in
contrast to serial editing where each builds on the previous (which
requires extensive orchestration mechanisms, and takes a long
time.)
Pages are the natural unit of work for only some tasks.
Success should be an improving text, not a perfect text.