Josh Berkus wrote:
I doubt that any TODO system would have 100% participation, and I know that it would depend on having some non-hacker volunteers updating the information on behalf of developers who didn't want to use it. However, I think that getting those volunteers is entirely possible (for example, PWN is inculding a weekly patch list and it's not much more effort to check off those patches against a web-based TODO list). If the system reflected 70% of current development activity, then I think it would be a big improvement over the current "read 100% of the mail archives for three mailing lists back one year to find out what's going on."
Yup, thats exactly what I experienced when I started a TODO list for the PHP project. A few developers wanted to get direct access, others use me as their proxy and then others do not care about the list at all. But it has been very helpful to the community to hear whats going on. It has let to some people joining the development or suggesting possible implementation options and more importantly it has reduced the work load of the release managers. This is not a task that requires a lot of technical know how and is therefore a great way for some non C hacker to contribute to the project.
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