From: Tim M. <tmm8@Lehigh.EDU> - 2009-09-03 15:34:16
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I would like to volunteer to be part of the group in a role that helps steer development. I can't offer actually programming time, but I can offer configuration assistance, as well as interfacing with the OLE Project. Tim Tim McGeary Team Leader, Library Technology Lehigh University 610-758-4998 tim...@le... Google Talk: timmcgeary Yahoo IM: timmcgeary Andrew Nagy wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Till Kinstler <kin...@gm... > <mailto:kin...@gm...>> wrote: > > Demian Katz wrote: > > > 1.) We should put together an official group of VuFind admins so that > > the project has more structured leadership. > > What are the duties of those admins? > We clearly need some kind of improved maintenance for this project. And > maybe some more commitment... Is that the task of the admin group? But > what does that mean in practice? > > > We need a group who will help drive the roadmap for vufind. That means > take ownership of the roadmap by maintaining the issue management system > (jira, trac, etc.) and define the release milestones. Also drive what > new features are to be worked on and prioritize bug fixes. Over see the > SVN repo, and so on. > I'd like to see this group someone on the smaller size - somewhere > between 5 - 8 people. If we get more volunteers, we might need to have > a voting process as many open source community driven projects do. So > if you are interested in taking on a leadership/administrative role with > VuFind, please volunteer yourself. > > > > > 2.) We should be making better use of JIRA. > > Yes. We made hardly any use of it in the past... > > But just to mention it: Sourceforge offers Trac as "development > management tool", the (yet unused) VuFind trac is on > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/vufind/ > What I personally like very much in Trac is the integration of source > code (through SVN), issue tracking (with milestones, timeline ...) and a > wiki. That's all possible in Jira, too, AFAIK (but for the wiki you > additionally need Confluence, I guess; and on the other hand, we already > have the dokuwiki on vufind.org <http://vufind.org>). I just wanted > to mention that trac > option, because if someone has strong reasons for either of those tools, > the time to make a decision is now... > > > I enabled trac on the sourceforge site when they announced offering it a > month ago or so. I had planned on using Trac from the onset of VuFind, > however at the time it was near impossible to use trac with a > sourceforge repo. At the same time, JIRA announced their free license > for open source projects. I'd be happy to switch to trac now that it is > available; however, we already have a large number of issues in JIRA. > So unless someone wants to spend their time moving all of the issues > over to trac, it might be best to stay with jira. > > Andrew > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > VuFind-General mailing list > VuF...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general |