Dev/Project Management

Successful projects result from excellent project management.

• ProTip™: Appoint roles, delegate responsibility, manage resources, and listen to fellow volunteers.

The Flight Crew and Customers

Flying an aircraft—even for a single journey—requires collaboration and cooperation. An Archive Team project is very similar:

Pilot

• mediates issues
• adds items to tracker queue
• monitors for buggy results

Co-pilot

• writes content grab scripts
• answers technical questions
• takes the role of pilot if the pilot is missing in action

Engineer

• admins the tracker host machine
• sets up GitHub repository permissions
• set ups Rsync hosts

Attendants

• answers general questions
• troubleshoots installation problems
• triage bugs and issues

Hat-Wearing Loudmouth

• wears hats
• a loudmouth
• over 1 million followers for his cat's Twitter account
• named Jason Scott

Passengers

• runs Warrior VM appliance
• runs scripts manually
• have many IP addresses
• future potential pilots
• submits GitHub pull requests

Developer Documentation

• Infrastructure overview
• Source code repositories
• Warrior overview
• Starting a new project
• Writing Seesaw grab scripts
• Setting up a tracker
• Setting up Rsync and Megawarc Factory
• Project management and leadership