[Xastir-dev] Xastir Requirements Capture

[John Sennesael]

> 
> >
> > 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

How about forums for discussion and a wiki for documentation. 
I often find it easier to find information in web-forums because
discussions can be classified under different topics, and they often
have better search functions than mailing lists do.Moreover, some
forumsoftware has nice formatting options such as [code] [/code]
statements which will automatically do syntax-coloring on blocks of
code. 

Another thing to look into, would be something like
redmine(http://www.redmine.org/), which can do:
 * svn/cvs/mercurial/etc.. repository management ( online repository
browsing, it automatically creates RSS feeds from the repo changelogs,
and it can show syntax-colored diff's between different
revisions/versions of files. very detailed and very useful)  
 * bug and feature/task/support ticket tracking (and the abibility to
link bug creations/resolvings to repository revision numbers)
 * manage project 'news', documents, and files
 * track time spent on tasks/projects
 * team/project calendar
 * automatically generated gantt chart. (visual way of tracking project
schedule, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart )
 * project roadmap 

( a demo project in redmine can be seen here:
http://demo.redmine.org/projects/show/sandbox )

There are many options out there that could increase productivity, I
only stated some of my personal favorites, but it is definitively
something worth brainstorming over.