I am posting an update of what's going on with this to the list because,
erm, dave told me to.
Right, this is what has happened/will happen:
At the technical meeting it was decided that we need a developers site;
This site should be used primarily to disseminate information about the
state of each part of the NMS Archive Project.
The proposed format for this site is that for each of the sections will
have a page that will have
a) a short description of the section
b) a summary of the current state of affairs
c) a list of *current* files
d) a weblog of the recent changes
e) a pumpking
The sections will be
* the website itself
* the unix install
* the windows install
* the mac install
* one for each script
The front page will have, in addition to a link to each of the pages, a
quick summary of the state of affairs of the project and a collection of
the most recent entries from all the weblogs
The technology to do all of this will be quick and dirty. The reasoning
for this is simple:
1) Let's do it quickly, and we can refactor later.
2) The code we're using isn't that complicated and something like CVS
would probably be an overkill. Likewise for a proper bugzilla
system.
3) All changes should be go through the pumpking for each of the
individual sections so this shouldn't be a problem
People that have agreed to be pumpkings so far:
Mark Fowler (that's me) agreed to be website pumpking
Simon Batistoni agreed to be windows install pumpking.
Paul Mison agreed to be mac install pumpking
If you agreed to write a script, you're pumpking for that (note that
pumpkings can hand the responsibility to other people if they want)
The developers website is working now, and it's just a matter of slapping
in the code for listing files, editing the weblogs, and um the sections.
Shouldn't take that long then ;-)
The trial website should be up in the next week or so[1] and I'll post
more info to the list once it's done.
Later.
Mark.
NRN.
[1] Damn nice weather making me want to sit in the sun.
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