[Xastir-dev] Xastir Requirements Capture

[Gerry Creager]

Web forums share teh same problem for me.  I'm moving 'way too fast to 
find a website and update it sufficiently often to follow changes.  It's 
literally hard enough to keep up with e-mail during the day, and some 
days, well, I just don't, as there's more going on than I can handle.

I'd prefer e-mail discussions, wtih wiki documentation of a 
decision/consensus.

gerry

John Sennesael 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
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 
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