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From: Guillaume C. <las...@gm...> - 2007-07-03 23:51:06
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Errr... Please forgive me for my English language mistakes. The more parts of what I wrote I read, the more mistakes I can find. :-( Note to self : posting at 1:40 AM is not always a good idea... On 7/4/07, Guillaume Ceccarelli <las...@gm...> wrote: > > Hi everyone ! > > I hope the holidays are going fine for all of you ! > > Well... There are several things I'd like to talk about. Namely : > - Staff > - What misses to make ICECrawler work > - Communication > - Our brand new admin > - Documentation for the project > - The IC05 report > > > === Staff === > > Sooooo... Let's begin with the beginning : you ! Us ! The team ! > ICECrawler devels ! > To be able to work efficiently, I'd like to know when you guys will want > to spend some time on the project this summer. No need to be really precise, > but having a rough idea would be cool... For my part I should become active > in the end of the week / start of the next week. > > === What misses to make ICECrawler work === > > (As a tiny reminder) > > As you already know it, though almost all modules should work > independently, ICECrawler a a whole doesn't work in its current state. The > main issues now are : > - The network module make requests but don't store its contents (which is > a bug, not some sort of unimplemented thingy) > - The GUI is a stub. We got ideas, most of us (at least I think) find > these ideas cool but nevertheless, nothing in the UI is connected with the > rest of the app, and there are still choices to make concerning the layout > of our "crawl status" and "crawl settings" tabs > > When these issues will be addressed, I think we'll have a fair amount of > testing to do too... > > > === Communication === > > Within our last semester we had the opportunity to meet once a week, which > probably won't be the case for a while now. So to work together we'll have > to adopt some means of communication. Looking at our ready-to-use tools, we > have : the icecrawler mailing-lists, #icecrawler IRC channel, the ICECrawler > wiki, Instant messaging using MSN / GTalk / Something else. I think the > mailing-lists and IRC are the most effective way we have to talk about > ICECrawler, but with one backside. Even if we are a team of full native > French speakers now, this won't necessarily be the case in the future (be it > near or distant). Beside that, the mailing-lists are also some kind of PR > (Public Relations) thing. Since they are public, (excepted > icecrawler-internal, to which almost no-one is subscribed now) they also act > as some kind of advertising for our project. Someone interested in what we > do (from a developer point of view) is likely to browse the mailing-list > archives to take the temperature and see what is going on. And for that > reasons, I'd really like to keep our mailing-lists English-speaking ones. > That particular thing could be a drawback for some of us maybe... So I > insist for you to tell me if it is the case for you, since the mailing-lists > haven't been used by anyone excepted me so far. I also want to insist on the > fact these lists are not only for me to post information. It should be > something for everyone to use (even external people after all, since > everyone can subscribe) to simply discuss about the project, ask questions, > tell us what you're doing, and so on. Therefore please don't hesitate to > post on it. > > Here are our set-up lists : > - icecrawler-devel, the main development mailing list, which should be > used almost every time we want to discuss something about the project > - icecrawler-internal, a private mailing-list for which archives are not > accessible to the public, which should be used to talk about confidential > issues when there will be some (like security issues / things like that) > - icecrawler-announce, which will be used when we will be more mainstream > to announce new versions, things like that > - icecrawler-commits, a brand new one, to which a message is sent by sf.net > svn server whenever a commit occurs, allowing us to keep tracks of them. > > Oh, and since it is communication-related too, the developer section from > the wiki is now readable by anyone (it's still only editable by us though) > > One other thing, starting now, i'll be on our IRC channel whenever I'm > online so you can find me there if you want to. > > === Our brand new admin === > > I'd like to introduce you to phantez :-) , who is now an admin for the > project at SF.net and the wiki. So if something goes wrong or if some > maintenance is needed for any reason, we are at least two people to be able > to provide the service. It should help us to avoid problems if one of us > would be unavailable at some time. > > > === Documentation for the project === > > One thing that must be completed at least when ICECrawler will be up and > working, would be to fully document our source code using Doxygen or > something else is someone has a better alternative to tell us about. For my > part I still have the UML diagrams made with Visual Paradigm without having > them finished nor published. I will make sure this is corrected more or less > quickly > > > === The IC05 report === > > We may be having a problem here... I assume you all received my e-mail > with the report attached for Franck to reviewed, I asked him to reply when > he'd have received, but he haven't yet. I wrote him again today. I don't > know if he has answered to someone else or something, so please tell me if > you know something I don't about this... > > > I think that's all. I'm so sorry I couldn't make this e-mail shorter. > Still, have a nice day ! > > Guillaume > |