"sys-eng" draft: freedom to play

[Rob Spanton]

Hi Everybody!

Please have a look at my draft outline of the "sys-eng" process (a
better name is required). You can read it here: [1], and you can clone
it here [2].

Please have a read. I hope it will make SR more fun, less stressful,
and considerably more compatible with many more contributors from an
increasing number of places.

I would very much like to hear your thoughts and ideas about this
process!

Cheers,

Rob

[1] https://www.studentrobotics.org/~rspanton/sr2013/syseng/process.html
[2] git://srobo.org/~rspanton/syseng.git

[Sam Phippen]

Hi Rob,

On 23 May 2012, at 20:51, Rob Spanton wrote:

> Hi Everybody!
>
> Please have a look at my draft outline of the "sys-eng" process (a
> better name is required). You can read it here: [1], and you can clone
> it here [2].

I like it, I only have a tiny minor modification which is that you might want to change this: "During very busy periods, such as around kickstart and the competition, there will of course be more delay." to this "During very busy periods, such as around kickstart, the competition and during exams, there will of course be more delay." (it's worth remembering that lots of us are currently undergrads, with exam death raining down upon us).

I think this will definitely help with distributed getting things done. You haven't explicitly stated what "accepted by the steering committee" is, I assume it's a majority of the committee sending a mail saying that they accept it?

Thanks
--
Sam Phippen

[Rob Spanton]

On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 21:03 +0100, Sam Phippen wrote:
> I like it, I only have a tiny minor modification which is that you
> might want to change this: "During very busy periods, such as around
> kickstart and the competition, there will of course be more delay." to
> this "During very busy periods, such as around kickstart, the
> competition and during exams, there will of course be more
> delay." (it's worth remembering that lots of us are currently
> undergrads, with exam death raining down upon us).

Yup, I think it can be even more general and just remind people that the
SC, like them, have lives to live.

> I think this will definitely help with distributed getting things
> done. You haven't explicitly stated what "accepted by the steering
> committee" is, I assume it's a majority of the committee sending a
> mail saying that they accept it?

No, I haven't. This is definitely something that should be in there. I
think it should be a majority vote from the SC.

Cheers,

Rob

[Sam Phippen]

I'd agree with this

Thanks
--
Sam Phippen

[Joe H]

I think this is brilliant. That is all.

Joe

[Andrew Busse]

On 05/23/2012 10:32 PM, Joe H wrote:
> I think this is brilliant. That is all.
>
> Joe

+1. Nice work.

Andy

[Rob Spanton]

On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 20:51 +0100, Rob Spanton wrote:
> Please have a look at my draft outline of the "sys-eng" process (a
> better name is required). You can read it here: [1], and you can
> clone it here [2].

I should add that I neglected to include someone pole-vaulting over the
barrier in the diagrams. An ASCII art representation of this would be
great: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rspanton/7258139356/

Cheers,

R

[Andrew Busse]

And the swinging from ropes.

I suggest gigajoule lasers.

Andy