Hello my fellow supporters of our little mod.
Now, that 1.4 Beta is out and things will hopefully develop in a good direction (I have not yet tested it myself, and probably will not take part in the early Beta stage) we have to get some things going a bit more fluently to achieve some good results regarding progress.
Unfortunately I cannot participate very much for the next weeks, I am currently preoccupied with learning and writing my exams, afterwards I will enjoy my holidays. Nevertheless, I want to enable progress even without my constant guidance, so I have come to think about a somewhat more detailed to-do-list until the next release.
I discovered this method of delegating detailed small parts of development to people working according to a complete list of tasks in another modding-community and found it quite helpful - people can see how far we have come, furthermore, it is possible for them to participate with easy and small parts that do not require much time. I imagine somewhat of a 2-step-organisation, with one person responsible for a task field (say, "Land Doctrines" for Karelian) who then lists his subsequent tasks that can be delegated or done by himself.
Example:
Land Doctrines (Karelian)
So, for every field we have a person (or we have non, as long as nobody feels responsible) organising the tasks that need to be done, "supervising" (not so strictly of course) his co-workers that want to pick certain tasks in the field and updating the progress to me, who organizes the list.
What do you think about this?
We can also leave this aside and only use the list for reference, but I pretty much like the idea to split things down into really small tasks that can be done easily within 1 hour or so, as this is much more encouraging for people from outside to contribute, if they see what needs to be done and what fits their personal requirements.
I will post a more detailed list in the next post below, which will then go into our paradox-forum-thread as well.
Now, that 1.4 Beta is out and things will hopefully develop in a good direction (I have not yet tested it myself, and probably will not take part in the early Beta stage) we have to get some things going a bit more fluently to achieve some good results regarding progress.
Unfortunately I cannot participate very much for the next weeks, I am currently preoccupied with learning and writing my exams, afterwards I will enjoy my holidays. Nevertheless, I want to enable progress even without my constant guidance, so I have come to think about a somewhat more detailed to-do-list until the next release.
I discovered this method of delegating detailed small parts of development to people working according to a complete list of tasks in another modding-community and found it quite helpful - people can see how far we have come, furthermore, it is possible for them to participate with easy and small parts that do not require much time. I imagine somewhat of a 2-step-organisation, with one person responsible for a task field (say, "Land Doctrines" for Karelian) who then lists his subsequent tasks that can be delegated or done by himself.
Example:
Land Doctrines (Karelian)
-Superior Firepower Doctrine Stats (done)
- -Grand Battleplan Doctrine Stats (Karelian)
- [...]
- -Doctrine Tech Layout (Thaegen)
- -Testing
So, for every field we have a person (or we have non, as long as nobody feels responsible) organising the tasks that need to be done, "supervising" (not so strictly of course) his co-workers that want to pick certain tasks in the field and updating the progress to me, who organizes the list.
What do you think about this?
We can also leave this aside and only use the list for reference, but I pretty much like the idea to split things down into really small tasks that can be done easily within 1 hour or so, as this is much more encouraging for people from outside to contribute, if they see what needs to be done and what fits their personal requirements.
I will post a more detailed list in the next post below, which will then go into our paradox-forum-thread as well.