chasers-documentation — List for discussion and development of CHASERS documentation

[Kenneth T. <ken...@gm...>]

Hello folks.  To help facilitate what I hope and believe will be 
newly-increased efforts to improve and disseminate CHASERS, I've created 
two new mailing lists.  One is for technical development efforts 
(chasers-devel), and the other for documentation discussion and issues 
(cleverly named chasers-documentation).

Creating these lists will provide for more specialized discussion among 
subscribers, while allowing those with only a more general interest in 
CHASERS to be spared the gory details.

Subscription to these new lists is of course open to anyone with an 
interest, and also entirely optional.  I would certainly hope, though, 
that at the very least Jonathan, Sarah, Jessi and Nathan will all end up 
as subscribers to chasers-devel.

It will be no surprise to anyone that there is plenty of room for 
CHASERS improvement--it's a target-rich environment!  The general areas 
seem to be:

        increased ease of installation and configuration
        improved documentation
        elimination of legacy code
        enhanced documentation
        increased and more flexible functionality

I've been thinking about this recently, and am working on a list of 
near-term items that I think would be relatively manageable.  I'll try 
to post it shortly (to chasers-devel), and would love to hear other 
people's comments and ideas.

I'll mention one item now, though.  It would be nice to get some of the 
improvements that have been made more recently at DESC incorporated into 
the next release.  Ones that come quickly to mind are the calendar 
repeating events (and child-child-tables) and file attachments.  There 
are likely others that I'm either forgetting or unaware of.  If someone 
at DESC could pull those patches at some point, it would be very 
helpful.  We'll also need to figure out how to keep DESC and public 
versions of CHASERS in sync, but that's a discussion we can have on the 
devel mailing list!

That's about it for now.  After a nice long break, I'm planning to 
devote some significant time and energy towards CHASERS efforts, and am 
excited to be doing so.  I hope some of you still retain CHASERS 
enthusiasm, and want to continue on the never-ending quest for 
improvement!  Hope y'all are doing well!

Ken