h1. Proposal for Board of Leaders elections draft
-Board of Leaders consists of 6 members, who responsible for fostering and foreseeing growth of Xonotic. Leaders should listen to community wishes and set the project goals in accordance what they think is the best way to the project. They also accept or reject content into the main Xonotic repository, which are they responsible for (be it code, art, maps, models, music, documentation) and strive to make Xonotic unified, unique and attractive. They also seek ways to get public attention and funds for development. They also responsible for proper working of Xonotic web site, code repository and other materials. Each leader is responsible for working with his specialty developers and explaining the goals that should be done and how to achieve that (e.g. modeling leaders has a list of all volunteering modelers and helps them understanding how to other parts of the game relate to models and what could be done). Therefore, I propose that there would be 6 leaders which should take positions of:
+Board of Leaders consist of 8 members, who are split to 4 departments by 2:
+# Art department
+# Audio department
+# Code department
+# Public relations department
-* Leader Coder
-* Leader Modeler and art designer
-* Leader Music and sounds designer
-* Leader Community manager
-* Leader Web architect
-* Leader Mapper
+Board of Leaders are responsible for fostering and foreseeing the growth of Xonotic.
-Major gameplay or whole Xonotic project related decisions should be made only by ALL LEADERS CONSENSUS (basically, that means anyone from the leaders has a VETO vote).
+Board of Leaders:
+* listen to the community wishes
+* set the project goals in accordance to what they think is the best to the project
+* accept or reject content into the main Xonotic repository, which are they responsible for (be it art, audio, code, documentation, maps, models)
+* strive to make Xonotic unified, unique and attractive for public
+* seek ways to get public attention and funding to further development
+* responsible for proper working of Xonotic web site and code repository
+* are in ownership of xonotic.org domain name
+* responsible for all legal questions regarding game's content and name
-h2. What is each leader responsible for:
+Each leader is also responsible for the flawless working of the department he is working in.
-* Leader Coder:
- creating coding goals, for all coding related issues and organizing other code developers
+Major Xonotic project related decisions (such as gameplay changes) should be made only by *having consensus of all leaders* (each leader has a veto vote).
-* Leader Modeler and art designer:
- creating modelling goals, for all modeling related issues and organizing other modeling developers, creating and maintaining of common Xonotic models repository
+h2. Art department
-* Leader Music and sounds designer
- creating goals, for all modeling related issues and organizing other modeling developers, creating and maintaining of common Xonotic models repository
+* Lead mapper
+* Lead modeler
-* Leader Community manager
- community development groups, public relationship, mass media, clan activities, tournaments, informing other leaders what players community needs or wants
+Art department is responsible for keeping an unified look of the game, working with other artists, informing them how their creations can go in-game, setting "need to be done" tasks for other artists, supervising the quality of maps which go into base and main Xonotic maps repositories, providing artists with texture and prop sets and other art related activities.
-* Leader Web architect
- maintaining Xonotic web site and integrating related web projects, both with Leader Community manager working on common projects
+h2. Audio department
-* Leader Mapper
- maintaining texture repository in a working state, responsible that only quality maps reach base or main Xonotic maps repository
+* Music director
+* Sound director
-h2. Groups appointed by the leaders:
+Audio department is responsible for keeping an unified audio and visual experience, creating/finding new audio content which would be used by the game, creating guidelines for other audio artists, setting "need to be done" tasks for other artists and other audio related activities.
-Quality Assurance group
-Tracker maintaining group
-Documentation group
-Other which leaders think would be good
+h2. Code department
+
+* Lead developer and game designer
+* Lead quality assurance engineer
+
+Code department is responsible for creating and maintaining game codebase, assuring that code is free of bugs before release is made, working with other code developers, setting "need to be done" coding tasks and other coding related activities.
+
+h2. Public relationships department
+
+* Lead community manager
+* Lead web developer
+
+Public relationships department is responsible for keeping community informed about news happening in Xonotic world, advertising the game in mass media, organizing community activities such as tournaments and other events, gathering community opinions about the game and informing about those other developers, organizing fund raising campaigns to speed up project development and doing other project related activities.
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+h2. Groups appointed by the Bord of Leaders
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+Board of Leaders can create other groups on demand with some special purpose. Examples of such groups are:
+
+* Quality assurance group
+* Tracker and wiki maintaining group
+* Documentation group
h2. Election process
projects / xonotic / xonotic.wiki.git / blobdiff