hi all, I have been on this list for a while now, and followed many of the threads of conversation. Several months ago, right about when I started working with Gallup I sent out some comments on this list about what I thought Alexandria was and tried to gauge interest and whatnot.
I ended up installing the mozilla tool chain (all perl) and have it all working. But there is always that drive to do something different and better...:) Would others on this list be interested in having a bit of a discourse on the Alexandria project as a whole and perhaps hammer out some sort of vision on what it could be? The documentation is aging quite well and there are plenty of other projects that are doing bits and pieces of what Alexandria kinda wants to do. I gather from the lists that development on Alexandria as a overall project is rather dead. Perhaps I am wrong about the overall project , but anyway it looks like some of the sub-projects are chugging along well. Perhaps that is because they have a fairly well defined mission. Anyway, there are so many different tools and technologies out there that could be leveraged for this that I thought people might be interested in having a discussion on where alexandria could go. Perhaps leverage off of things like http://www.opensymphony.com for building the core application. I have always felt this system (alexandria) needed to be a central system that ties lots of pieces together. I would love a system that acted as a portal to tools like those on the mozilla tool chain. Perhaps an administrative aid for CVS, or not...but certainly ties to an issue tracking system, automated build system, Source browsing, crossreferencing source, project metrics gathering and reporting, javadoc and that ilk. To me the goal of alexandria is very vague. I think it wants to be a portal into certain tools and tie all of that information together, but to what end? What is the purpose behind working on something like Alexandria if I already have 5 different systems in place that would all have to be replaces or altered to work with this new system. What is the itch that writing this software will scratch? Personally, I put in postnuke as a content m�nagement/weblog system that holds links to each of the tools we have running. tinderbox (mozilla), bonsai (mozilla), bugzilla(mozilla), twiki(twiki.org), lxr (mozilla) are all handy on an individual scale...and it helps that the mozilla tools all kinda know about each other and link across... End result is a site that pretty much does what �lexandria wants to....with a fairly small amount of effort. It would be neat to have everything being implemented by one system...but I don't know if it is worth it. So, I guess I would like to ask people here what they think about the overall goal of Alexandria (not the sub-projects, Gump have enough vision and goal). Thoughts? Jesse -- Jesse McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Gallup Organization (402) 486-6987 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
