On 12/22/05, Karl Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/22/05, Kevin Dangoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm thinking that letting a little bit of > > what's going on (like 1 commit, 1 email message, 1 ticket, etc.) leak > > out to the front page will help convey that this is an active and > > moving project. > > The problem here is that commits, messages, and tickets generally > don't stand on their own so unless you have a few (3 is generally the > magic number) it isn't worth the space required to set them up and put > them in context and they generally wind up just as visual noise. > > I understand what you're getting at, basically part of the appeal of > this project is the rate at which it moves and you want the pitch to > capture that as part of the pitch without explicitly saying so. I'm > sure Richard or I will get something that works for that, but it > probably won't be just one item of each type.
Agreed, either have 3 of a kind or nothing. If you want to show the speed at which the project moves, perhaps including a date/time stamp on each ticket, commit, etc. might do the job. On the other hand, that might prove counterproductive: * If the last commit is weeks in the past, it might say "Slow-moving project". * If the last commit is minutes ago, it might say "Still under heavy development, wait until it settles down". I like the http://turbogears.org/spy idea. :-) -- Robin Munn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key 0xD6497014
