Jesse Eichar ha scritto:

>> I agree with you Chris we need some sort of process for making changes 
>> to Geotools.  Seems to me there keeps being issues where someone sends 
>> an email out about some change, nobody is really interested except for 
>> that person so everyone just ignores it...  Then the change committed 
>> and everyone freaks out because they realize that it affect them.  
>> I've seen it happen a number of times now.

Maybe having a GSIP like process with deadlines would be nice.
That is, something like "vote this in two weeks or it'll automatically
be approved".
On the other side, the rule should also be "introduce major new api 
without a proposal and you'll get kicked out before even noticing!".
Guess this defends the interest of those wanting changes, and also
those who does not want nilly willy ones.

>> One thing I've been doing in uDig is making blocker JIRA issues for 
>> proposed changes so that they will be either voted down or somehow 
>> addressed fairly quickly.  It is much better than email in my opinion 
>> because it provides a place to look for proposals and you will treat 
>> them as proposals rather than just another of my million emails for 
>> the day. I like using JIRA as a medium for certain conversations 
>> because it is easily organized (easier than email), you can associate 
>> issues with releases and categorize issues nicely.  Searching through 
>> issues is also nicely supported.

But creating decent documents is not supported.
Sometimes a proposal needs some better formatting because it's trying to 
propose something complex (may need pictures too). So I'd like to have 
both, jira and wiki page.
Wiki page may disappear all right, maybe we can export the page once
the proposal is accepted/rejected.
The other advantage I see is that wiki is versioned and it's vendor
neutral, we don't have to fight for a file format.

>> We can create a issue category that is forproposals, and conversations 
>> can take place on those items.  The one caveat is that the comments 
>> are not sent to the list but if you are interested in the report you 
>> can "Watch" and then you will get email notification when the issue 
>> changes, such as a comment.

Yeah.... is there any way to configure jira to send comment mails to
the list for a specific category?

Cheers
Andrea

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