RFC: The end of the contributors article

[Niclas Zeising]

On 1/12/07, Joel Dahl <joel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Today I decided to finally do what I've been planning to do for a long
> time: move stuff out of the contributors article and instead place it
> under www/.
>
> I started with the teams etc and you can see the results here (nowhere
> near finished yet though):
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~joel/wii/team.html
>
> So, why bother anyway?  Well:
>
> -  Better information about what the different teams do and what their
>   responsibilities are.  Our developers are generally very confused
>   when it comes to finding the right person to talk to, for example
>   when requesting repo-copies or new perforce accounts etc.  This will
>   hopefully improve the situation somewhat.
> -  The translation teams generally don't translate the contributors
>   article since it doesn't seem to be worth the effort.  Hopefully
>   this will change now, since this can be quite important information
>   even for non-English speaking people.
> -  Email addresses are not completely visible anymore.
> -  This information does not really belong in an article.
> -  This is more up-to-date and includes a lot more teams etc.
>
> Feedback much appreciated.  I'd be grateful if someone could help me out
> with writing more descriptions of the various teams.  Also, if someone
> could triple-check the document for obvious mistakes, such as wrong team
> members on the wrong teams etc, that would be great.
>
> I haven't really decided where to put it yet, or what to call it, so
> suggestions are welcome here as well.
>
> It's late here and I'm *so* tired, so sorry for any typos...
>
> --
> Joel
>

This looks great! At least what you've typed up so far.  Scream if you
need a hand (or rather, two hands and a keyboard, but you know ;) ).
About placement. I think it should be put either in the community
section or the developers section. I'm not entierly sure which option
is best though.
//Niclas