Hi Michael I like the idea of Google custom search. Quick and very functional hack What about adding search feature into basex.org site? There are tasks like
1. search general web site (no wiki, no mailing list search) 2. search wiki docs 3. search mailing list
Regarding bug list - In case of BaseX I do not miss it so much, as there is this mailing list, where things are openly discussed (and extremely quickly resolved). So be sure, I am not upset because of this.
On the other hand accessible Bug list and wiki (already open) would allow external people participating in your development more easily. There is a chance for you to gain some energy from Open Source approach.
Jan
2011/1/27 Michael Seiferle michael.seiferle@uni-konstanz.de
Hi Jan,
thanks again for your input: Am 27.01.2011 um 10:56 schrieb Jan Vlčinský (CAD):
Mailing list It works well for me now as I have most e-mails in my GMail already. But
initial research was not easy, as had to download some archives and search through them.
Any solution offering search box would be welcome. Like Google Groups or
whatsoever. But whatever you pick, just check, how accessible the search is. I already met few phpBB installations, where it was hard or impossible to search. I actually like the Google Groups approach, it's "geeky" enough for email only users, yet accessible and offers good search capabilities. The same counts for Gerrit's hint on using google site search! I think we could easily integrate a Google Custom search to our Documentation so Mailing List issues can be searched.
Yet using mailinglists might still feel awkward to a lots of people.
Bug tracking What I like on Open Source is, that I have strong chance, that if there
are some known problems, I can find them in advance by simple research of bug list and discussions.
I remember the time, when I was developing AutoCAD applications, deciding
technology to use, researched available resources, found no problems, entered the technology and hit the problem. Answer "What you describe has ID 123456 in our bug tracking system" was something what upset me quite well. That time we were already spending some hours on it we could avoid this, if the bug list would be open. Yes, this is true. We will have some talking internally and come up with something.
Systems and processes I know about one great team, using Redmine for managing tasks (large ISP
provider maintaining dedicated servers who has to solve a lot of configuration and sw development tasks)
No system is perfect, at least until real processes are established.
Yes, RM serves us quite well, but still lacks some possibilities we'd love to have (public bug tracker, little more CRM functionality). There probably is no such thing as _the tool_ that serves all our needs - but we should find one that gets really close to this. Or a set of single tools that can easily interchange information.
It is like MS Outlook - great tool, but how shall one be using it?
;-)
We'll keep you posted!
Kind regards
Michael