[Nepomuk] Re: Development status tracking

Paweł Paprota ppawel at fastmail.fm
Mon Jul 4 17:19:55 CEST 2011


Hello,

On 07/04/2011 11:23 AM, Artem Serebriyskiy wrote:
> And, by the way, why techbase.kde.org ? Why not community.kde.org ?
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects states that info for external users should
> go to techbase, for internal - to community.kde.org.
> Not that I am against techbase - I just want raise and solve this question
> before I start filling my pages. Not a big fan of moving pages from one wiki
> to another :)
>

I think you're right. But then again it is a bigger problem than just 
the development status page - many of the existing Nepomuk pages would 
have to be moved to community.kde.org to comply with the techbase vs 
community vision.

> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Artem Serebriyskiy
> <v.for.vandal at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Vishesh Handa<handa.vish at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Everyone
>>>
>>> I think tracking development is a great idea, and using a wiki is a lot
>>> better than bugzilla. But, still, a wiki? Editing a wiki is a somewhat
>>> laborious task. Plus, it doesn't even look that good. Then again, that will
>>> hopefully be improved. Does anyone know of any better tools to track
>>> development? I'm hoping for something that is a bit more machine readable.
>>>
>> I don't [know], but may be there is a way to add such a page to
>> projects.kde.org instead of wiki? It already tracks commits, project
>> descriptions and so on. May be it can provide us with some 'metaproject'
>> page for Nepomuk where we can propogate statuses from usual nepomuk projects
>> pages?
>>
>> But, again, I have no idea what can Redmine do and what can't. So this weak
>> idea needs more exploration.
>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, lets go on with the wiki page for now. It's better than nothing.
>>>
>>> I'll add what all I'm working on over there.
>>> Maybe even clean up the pages.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Sebastian Trüg<trueg at kde.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> maybe splitting into core and apps would be nice, too? "Core" being the
>>>> backend stuff like storage/DMS, file indexer, query service and the
>>>> libraries, "apps" the rest
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. That's a great idea.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/03/2011 11:51 AM, Paweł Paprota wrote:
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/03/2011 11:41 AM, Artem Serebriyskiy wrote:
>>>>>> And what are the policies/guidlines of adding a project to this page ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Good question - this should be stated on the page. IMHO every
>>>>> development activity (at the high level) should be reflected in the
>>>> status.
>>>>>
>>>>> If there will be too many entries, it can be split into categories
>>>>> (GSOC, refactoring, bugfixing etc.) but I think the more information
>>>> the
>>>>> better.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Paweł Paprota<ppawel at fastmail.fm>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 07/03/2011 10:58 AM, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
>>>>>>>> Just a quick "yes, please" from me. I think this is a very good idea
>>>> and
>>>>>>>> I would gladly track my tasks on such a page, link other information
>>>> to
>>>>>>>> it and blog about it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good to hear!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Would you take the task of finishing this page? Maybe add a big fat
>>>>>>>> Nepomuk logo on top? ;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sure. The problem is that I don't actually know what tasks are being
>>>>>>> worked on currently! This was in fact the main reason for starting
>>>> the
>>>>>>> tracking page.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Moreover, the core of this idea is that the tracking will be done
>>>>>>> collectively so nothing's stopping anyone from updating the status.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I still have a few ideas on how to improve the shape and form of the
>>>>>>> page itself but obviously further suggestions are welcome.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So basically to answer your question once again - yes and what else
>>>>>>> would you like to see there?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paweł
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>> Sebastian
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 07/03/2011 09:34 AM, Paweł Paprota wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> as I'm about to start another development task in the Nepomuk
>>>> project,
>>>>>>>>> an idea came to my mind. I already said random things on IRC about
>>>> using
>>>>>>>>> Bugzilla for tracking development but I've decided to give this
>>>> idea a
>>>>>>>>> proper shape.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So here is the first iteration:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Nepomuk/DevelopmentStatus
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There is enough introductory information on the page that I think
>>>>>>>>> there's no need to duplicate the explanation of the idea in this
>>>> e-mail.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Let me know what you think and if it would be feasible to try to
>>>>>>>>> maintain this page and see how it works (or doesn't work).
>>>>>>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely yours,
>> Artem Serebriyskiy
>>
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