On 4/23/07, Devin Ben-hur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This might be interesting if I could figure out what it is. Why don't > all project sites have a short sentence or two telling us what they're > supposed to be? > > Ya know, when you're announcing to half a dozen diverse lists, perhaps > you shouldn't assume everyone already recognizes your project and can > infer what it's about from a changelist?
OK, so a bit of a summary of the project at the top of the email would have probably been a good idea, I'll give you that. ###### What Is It? eXPlain Project Management Tool (or simply eXPlainPMT) is a web-based application that supports the eXtreme Programming development methodology. Although traditional XP advocates the use of ordinary index cards to keep track of development requirements (story cards), this practice is sometimes impossible or undesirable. It's a practice that doesn't work well with geographically distributed teams, or developers with sloppy handwriting and/or cluttered desks (I certainly fall in the latter category ;-) ). eXPlainPMT allows story cards to be filed via the web based interface and made accessible to the entire project team. It also allows the status of the stories to be tracked and for the stories to be planned in an ongoing iterative process. The goal of the product is to support the methodology while staying out of the way as much as possible, so you'll find that there are few access restrictions or permissions settings. Just like with note cards, restrictions on who can view/alter the story cards are left to the consensus of the team. License eXPlainPMT is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). A copy of this license can be found in the file LICENSE in the application's root directory. ###### But honestly, if you can't get /some/ idea of what the project is about by looking at the first few lines of what's changed, and further go on to complain about the lack of information on the site when there's a fairly obvious link to "Project Info" in the header (pointing to the info I copied and pasted above) -- then there's really just no hope of us playing nicely together. -- Regards, John Wilger http://johnwilger.com ----------- "Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." – Henry Ford _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
