On Aug 8, 2006, at 17:47 , Josh Berkus wrote:
What happens now is:
A starts working on X.
3 months pass
B comes to hackers, spends hours reading the archives, doesn't find
X (because they know it by a different name), comes to -hackers and
asks "Is anyone working on X?"
B waits for 2 weeks without an answer and repeats the question.
Hackers E, F and G reply "yes, someone is but I don't remember who,
search the archives for keyword X"
B searches again, finds original post.
B e-mails A and gets no response.
B finally offers to take over X
Hackers M, L, and N say "sure, but read the archives for spec info"
B reads more archives for several hours.
There's a LOT of unnecessary overhead in that process: having a
simple web app that lists who claimed what todo and when, any
status updates if they've voluntarily provided them, and links to
archive discussions, we could reduce the above to a 3-step process
making it vastly easier for new hackers to get started.
A developers' wiki with links into the list archives would be great.
-M
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