Re: setting some goals

["Alex G.S." <alxgrtnstrngl gmail com>]

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overengineering
2http://www.retrorobotreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The_Homer.jpg

By your same logic using Etherpad for meeting notes, having a Mumble server and even a Wiki is wasteful.  You don't even need a website at all.  Let's measure the actual utilization of those tools and see if they're use is even justified.  Just get everyone a Gmail account and use Docs and Hangouts for free.  Then make Github pages for all GNOME projects and host all Git repos there.  That's what every other mainstream FOSS project is doing these days.  Why use any self-hosted infrastructure/tools when there are free cloud based services that are better and more scalable?

On the other hand it's hard to imagine that commercial teams at Intel or Red Hat don't use some internal tools or something like JIRA or Redmine but I could be wrong.

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com> wrote:

On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 00:31 -0400, Alex G.S. wrote:
>
>         But yeah, issue tracking systems were not designed for task
>         and project
>         management, but some organizations [ab]use them for that.
>
>
>         I probably wanted to express that having to learn a new tool
>         requires
>         convincing reasons shared by the team, otherwise a tool will
>         not be
>         widely accepted and effectively used in a team.
>
>
> Yeah it's usually better to use a tool specifically designed for
> that.  But since nothing is being used it's better if Bugzilla is used
> even at least temporarily.  If anyone has any other suggested systems
> please bring this up.  Perhaps if Oliver could run a poll we could see
> what systems people are familiar with and choose that.

I think don't think the team needs a new tool for the tasks you
describes, let's not overengineering things [1] [2]. I would rather want
to  see a focus on getting things done with our current
infrastructure/tools.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overengineering
2http://www.retrorobotreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The_Homer.jpg

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-mvh Oliver Propst