I politely hinted at a similar question yesterday and got a similarly terse an answer. Growing pains. I think everyone appreciates the work that goes into Rails. Can I hear a "Hell yeah"?
At this huge code factory place I used to work (I forgot the name, it's been a while) we had three mailing lists where the devs were encouraged to announce new features, feature changes, and bug fixes. Just a short note like, "New Feature: Hal9000 can now read lips." Besides keeping everyone informed, it had the unexpected benefit giving the devs that illusive sense of accomplishment, like when you can check something off. A ton of "nice job" mails would come in and you felt good about your work, even while filling out those *&%$! TPS coversheets. Lighthouse alone doesn't give us that. It's good at tracking bugs/issue but it doesn't allow someone to see what's going on, have the pulse of the whole. If the status was communicated more clearly, more often in a single place, no one will care if it's late as long as they have something to tell their dev-team, managers and clients. (Well, very few -- can't please everybody.) Just a thought. Dee -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
