[Xastir-dev] Xastir Requirements Capture

[Kristian Walsh]

> While I like to use wikis for documentation, I much prefer to keep  
> active discussions on a mailing list.  I find I just don't hit wikis  
> often enough in the day to make them useful for an interactive gig.   
> I do think Trac would be a good app for a wiki for development and  
> ticket-tracking.

I agree about wikis getting stale, but it's useful to have a  
definitive "spec" somewhere, and using a wiki avoids having only one  
person as "Keeper of the Document".

As a compromise, how about: discuss stuff here, and when agreement is  
reached on a point, it goes on the wiki page (along with a reason why  
it got there, perhaps?).  That way, we keep the discussion fluid, but  
still have an easy-to-view record of what's been decided, so that new  
contributors can get up to speed.

--
Kristian


On 17 Jun 2008, at 13:53, Gerry Creager wrote:

>
> gerry
>
> John Ronan wrote:
>> On 17 Jun 2008, at 03:39, Tom Russo wrote:
>>> Ok, I've been kicking around a strawman for "Xastir-NG" requirements
>>> capture, and would like to get the ball rolling.
>>>
>> Could I propose (unless anyone has serious objections) that we put  
>> the list of requirement into some other format other than an email  
>> archive. While fine for discussion, I find that the 'core' of the  
>> thread can sometimes get lost (of course you can tell me to get  
>> lost as well ;).
>> I would be more than happy to create an instance of trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/ 
>> ) or indeed any other tool that would allow collaborative editing/ 
>> working.
>> Alternatively, I could try and keep a continual 'list summary' on  
>> one long html page.  Which attempts to describe the feature and  
>> keep the description up to date with the list discussion.
>> Comments?
>> de John
>> EI7IG
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