Re: G2 Lessons Learned

[Jon Allen <jon jonallen org>]

Hi Chris,

This seems rather opposite what I've mentioned below.  Even if
we go to a new system I don't think we should go out and try to
setup a new machine on a new domain for GDP work.  I assume that
John will resolve sysadmin issues if the group decides to go with
something that requires many machine modification tasks.

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Jon Allen :: jon jonallen org :: http://jonallen.org

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Chris Lyttle wrote:

> 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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