Re: [Config4gnu-developer] Meeting to discuss short-term goals

[C. G. <c.g...@tu...>]

Hello everybody,

Thanks for posting a list of goals to discuss, and I would like to put some 
ideas on the table.
Maybe it is possible to let the project be a little more self organizing in 
some way by freshing up the website a litte (don't think it needs to change 
much, actually think it is pretty good) enhancing:

- graspability of the Project

A nice website example for a transparent development process and status I saw 
is the http://autopackage.org project, their website can give good ideas. 
(For example nice FAQ, coloured schedule, changelog, distinguish users/
developers informational needs (even before stable 1.0), ...)

- give some more orientation to help:

1. Classic Documentation (i.e. the good docs and specs that are already on the 
website)
2. community information repository (wiki),
3. bug/rfe tracking
4. Discussion  (Mailinglist/gmane-news)

The overall idea beeing to inform the interested and make it as easy as 
possible to contibute (wiki or feedback being the easy entry line to cross). 
And ask for it in a direct way

A more genaral article that might be interesting to skim:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/12/11/myths.html


> Unless we can find a good/cheap way to get voice to/from other people
> (relatively easy if its just 1 other person), we're thinking we'll just
> discuss amongst ourselves, and then write up a summary of the meeting for
> everyone to digest & comment on.

Great. Looking forward to it

Oh, and I would like to hope there are some more people out there who would 
like to make some first cfg meta-config definitions for new apps. I was not 
able to do it yet, hence I asked before. Would you say it could be done 
without programming experience (just the xml-definitions part) at all?

All the best,
Christian