[project1dev] Re: Cracking the whip!
- From: Kent Petersen <kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:36:40 -0700
Checking in. Been busy as hell lately, between looking for work, school, and
now moving, I have not had much time for the project. I think the biggest
thing on my plate was designing the hacking mini game and helping Nick with
temple construction (the script part)
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> makes sense (sorry for muddying thread with the side discussions) :P
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM, David Weivoda <david.weivoda@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Yeah that sounds good. If you edit it and put your name I would
>> suggest time/date stamping it.
>>
>> On Thursday, October 15, 2009, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Color coding is a good idea, i'll see if our wiki can do that!
>> >
>> > i pictured the comments to include all dialog about the task including
>> something like this "Alan: I'm working on this issue" to show who is workin
>> on it
>> >
>> > maybe we can do something like...
>> >
>> > yellow highlighted title = in progress
>> > red highlighted title = blocked by another task (ie waiting for art or
>> design etc)
>> >
>> > hows that sound?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:18 PM, David Weivoda <david.weivoda@xxxxxxxxx
>> > <javascript:_e({},
>> 'cvml', 'david.weivoda@xxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I like the look of that page! I think what you need are some clear
>> identifiers for each of the tasks, where they are at and who they are
>> assigned too. An example would be formatted like below.
>> >
>> >
>> > Art Under way
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > art and animation for the old man (we have temp art to use)Task awaiting
>> upload Assigned to "blank" to place, "date": Eric: alex has temp art for the
>> strange man, real guy will be done using character creator. Alan: So this
>> task is just to put the strange man's temp art in it sounds like.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I think the things that each task would need to have are;
>> > 1) has it been assigned, if yes to whom
>> > 2) has it been started
>> > 3) status of its completion (i.e. just started, awaiting additional
>> info, ready for upload)
>> > 4) date expected for completion
>> > 5) once complete marked as complete by whom, when.
>> >
>> > Then we can follow that up with the details about the task. In other
>> words we need information about the task not just what the task is. I would
>> definitely suggest some kind of legend or key at the top of the wiki stating
>> how people should either comment with their name & where or dated so people
>> can tell who said what and when.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > As for how work is distributed, I think a combination of first come
>> first serve and pick anything marked as open or alan/eric/sid can assign a
>> task to someone looking for work (or just assign it if it needs done). At
>> the time a new task or item is created the person responsible can either
>> choose someone to assign it to or just throw it up there and let people find
>> it. One nice thing about having sort of key or legend and lots of detail is
>> it lets us just do a quick find on the page for "open task" or something and
>> boom, scroll down till you find something.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > just my thoughts.
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > i made up this page to try and handle the problem of people not knowin
>> what to work on next:
>> >
>> > http://pyotek.com/projects/wiki/doku.php?id=currentmilestone
>> >
>> > but it might not be the best system in place (we are figuring out our
>> org stuff a lil better right now i know...)
>> >
>> > what do you guys think, how should someone get new tasks
>> >
>> > Should we keep a prioritized list somewhere (like on the wiki) of whats
>> needed and people can grab what they want?
>> >
>> > Or should we dish it out (ie eric gives out art stuff, i give out tech
>> stuff, or sid gives out all tasks or something else?)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM, eric <figarus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Biobeast? :P I dunno - ask nick to send his temple props list for now
>> and see if anything grabs you
>> >
>> > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>> >
>> >
>> > From: katie cook <ktmcook@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:33:23 -0700 (PDT)
>> > To: <project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Subject: [project1dev] Re: Cracking the whip!
>> >
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>> > You guys could give me something to do...ERIC...Ummmmmm....Yeah. =)
>> >
>> > I posted last week that I am wide open. Whenever your ready for me t
>> >
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