On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 14:24, Greg Smith<gregsmit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Tomeu, > > > > Thanks for the feedback. > > > > On this: > >>> I'm working on the GPA list (see: > >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy). If others have > >>> lists of requirements, send them out. Then perhaps Simon, Tomeu et al > >>> can link to them from some Roadmap creation page. We may be further > >>> along than we think. > >> > >> What about entering Feature pages? Or is that intended to happen only > >> once we have a technical plan for the feature? > >> > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy > > > > I would enter a feature before there's an agreed technical design. I > > try to start with requirements saying what the user needs to do > > abstracted from the technology (e.g. user wants to write a weekly > > assignment and keep it in a "notebook" which their teacher can see as > > well). I just haven't decided yet which are the most important > > features for GPA, aside from Back up and Restore which I did create. > > So we need a place to collect deployment needs separate from the > features process? Would be trac a good place for that? I vote no. I don't think Trac is not a good solution for nondevelopers. I recently saw uservoice.com a web2.0 site for this problem and it seems to have a lot of advantages over Trac. Here are what I see as the issues with Trac. - Its slow - It requires login. when I am in a classroom with 20 kids I want to be able to use any computer to put down an in the moment note. - Its hard to search trac. Its slow. It only shows a few results. its hard to sort the results. The nice AJAX UI on uservoices makes it so much easier to see if I'm entering a duplicate issue. - there is no way easily say +1 or vote for something. Its a big committment to log in and comment. We really need to know what issues appeal to a wide audiance. We want to lower the barrier to saying +1. - Trac asks questions nondevelopers don't know the answer to. For some personality types they just stop when they can't answer a question, like what release or what component or is it a bug or feature. We want to make it easy for people in the field to talk to us, the drop downs in Trac, even when not required, act as a barrier. - We want to enable and encourage chit chat about bugs, features, ideas I don't know if uservoice is the right solution for us. But when I used it, it helped me see why Trac wasn't working for us. This is the product I used uservoice with: http://gtdinbox.uservoice.com/pages/17178-general > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > > Thanks, > > > > Greg S > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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