Kristian Walsh wrote:
While I like to use wikis for documentation, I much prefer to keep active discussions on a mailing list. I find I just don't hit wikis often enough in the day to make them useful for an interactive gig. I do think Trac would be a good app for a wiki for development and ticket-tracking.

I agree about wikis getting stale, but it's useful to have a definitive "spec" somewhere, and using a wiki avoids having only one person as "Keeper of the Document".

As a compromise, how about: discuss stuff here, and when agreement is reached on a point, it goes on the wiki page (along with a reason why it got there, perhaps?). That way, we keep the discussion fluid, but still have an easy-to-view record of what's been decided, so that new contributors can get up to speed.

That's the approach I prefer to use. I will admit to difficulty convincing at least one other group I work with to approach things that way, even if stale wiki fodder was finally recognized as a problem.

gerry

On 17 Jun 2008, at 13:53, Gerry Creager wrote:


gerry

John Ronan wrote:
On 17 Jun 2008, at 03:39, Tom Russo wrote:
Ok, I've been kicking around a strawman for "Xastir-NG" requirements
capture, and would like to get the ball rolling.

Could I propose (unless anyone has serious objections) that we put the list of requirement into some other format other than an email archive. While fine for discussion, I find that the 'core' of the thread can sometimes get lost (of course you can tell me to get lost as well ;). I would be more than happy to create an instance of trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) or indeed any other tool that would allow collaborative editing/working. Alternatively, I could try and keep a continual 'list summary' on one long html page. Which attempts to describe the feature and keep the description up to date with the list discussion.
Comments?
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