Re: G2 Lessons Learned

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

I notice the gnomedocs domain name is still available if we want to setup 
our own machine to house the doctable/lampadas db

Chris


On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jon Allen wrote:

> I didn't start using GNOME until about 1.4 so I have no idea how effective
> the Doctable was back then.  Perhaps the current Doctable infrastructure is
> sufficient but needs to be used?  I'm wondering if we need to go out and
> re-invent the wheel if we have a system already in place.  If the Doctable
> in its
> current form is actually a useful tool when used consistently, I vote to
> stick with
> it because:
> 
> 1. We don't have to install/customize/learn a new doc tracking system.  [1]
> 2. We don't have to change our methods dramatically to support the new
> tool.
> 
> Also, adding a 'newbie tasks' section to the doctable might help get new
> documenters going in the right direction.
> 
> Jon
> 
> [1] This will avoid the ever-present GNOME sysadmin issue, and besides,
> I won't have to update the webpages till the wee hours of the morning to
> support
> a new tool ;)
> 
> On 01 Jul 2002, John Fleck wrote:
> >
> > Doctable
> > 
> >   We need to solve this problem. We floundered for a long time and
> >   lost energy and momentum because there were people wanting to do
> >   something but no clear way to figure out what needed to be done
> >   short of some sort of IRC ESP thing. In the past, the period of
> >   greatest momentum for the GDP was in the development of GNOME 1.2,
> >   when there was a ton of documentation to be written and you could
> >   just log onto the Doctable and easily find a task. The temporary
> >   Doctable helped noticeably, but really sucks.[2]
> > 
> 
> 

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