On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:54:35AM -0700, Scott Scriven wrote:
Hello.
Hi!
I noticed some recent messages about revision control and possibly switching to a DVCS. This makes me happy. :)
Yes, we're trying hg these days.
So, I was wondering about general project infrastructure... things like bug trackers, todo lists, mailing lists, help forums, release management, news, patch queues and code review, code repositories, etc.
Thanks for the QA job. Please bear in mind that most of the features are not there not because we don't want them but for lack of manpower. Although there're also a few ones rejected out of experience.
What I've found so far is the following:
dillo.org: - general project info - release tarballs - bug list - FAQ
Note, the bug track is not only a list, progress status is shown there as a percentage. Discussion is meant to happen in the mailing list. Another big asset of the project is the excellent doxygen documentation of Dillo Widget (the internal widget set). e.g. (from the main directory): doxygen cd html dillo index.html Just give it some browsing! As a matter of fact, with your review, it's clear to me that we need to communicate this better...
auriga.wearlab.de: - mailing lists - cvs
freshmeat.net: release announcements
freenode: IRC (inactive?)
Yes, inactive. We may log in to discuss lively between developers, if the need arises. So far email has been enough for a year.
http://misc.andi.de1.cc/dillo/ : Packaging for Debian, Ubuntu, Openmoko
http://www.hyperborea.org/software/dillo/ : Packaging for Red Hat
http://freehg.org/u/dillo/css-prototype : Prototype CSS branch
http://freehg.org/u/dillo/main/ (I'm yet to update the web site, and BTW, just today I got a time window to work on dillo again. I'm borrowing time from the high-priority CSS stylesheet loading to write these lines :)
Is that about right? Did I miss anything?
The current Plans page: http://www.dillo.org/Plans.html It shows in broad lines, what we're doing. More coarse grained than the bugtracker. With regard to a users forum, we once had dillo-users, but in the end it only served as a SPAM repository. I agree that requiring user subscription to ask a simple question is a stopper for lots of users. Maybe an online form, with a human-being test that forwards to dillo-dev can be a good compromise. Good ideas are welcomed. Sometimes we don't have the time to implement them, and that's the problem. Help is highly appreciated. -- Cheers Jorge.-