RE: [Aimmath-developers] changes

[Chris S. <san...@fo...>]

Neil,

Thanks for your prompt response.  I think it will take some of
us - and I certainly include myself here - a little time to get used to
CVS but that in the longer term it is going to be a very useful tool.

Specific comments below.

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Neil Strickland wrote:

> I think that in general we have too many branches, too many web sites, too
> many mailing lists and so on.  I would like to suggest:

I agree with this - it will be very confusing to new users or developers,
and may even be to us if we take a break from developments.

> 
> 1) We should have a development branch and a stable branch and that should
>    be it.  If you make a change that is reasonable enough that other people
>    might want to try it, then it can be committed to the development branch;
>    the change can always be reversed later if necessary.  If you are not
>    ready to to commit to the development branch, then the change can just
>    stay on your own machine, the CVS system need not see it at all.
> 
>    I think that Gustav wanted a private branch as a convenient way to sync
>    his home and office machines.  It would be OK to have branches like that,
>    if they are clearly marked as such.

I think this is sensible.

> 3) I think we only need two mailing lists/discussion forums: one for people
>    who are willing to read source code, and one for people who are not.  I
>    don't think that any finer subdivisions are useful in practice.

I agree with this - can we agree which to use?  I've just cross-posted a
mail to three places to ensure everyone gets it!

Obviously the developers are currently using 
AIM developers <aim...@li...>
which seems fine to me.

We seem to have two choices for the user discussion (perhaps there are
other options)

(1) continue to use the JISC mail list,
(2) use the forum mechanism on moodle in the aim home page.

I've no preference to this - if we agree (2) then I will send an email to
the JISC list and close it to new submissions but keep the archive open
for reference.

Again, what to people think?
Chris