Re: [Icecrawler-devel] ICECrawler and the near future

[Guillaume C. <las...@gm...>]

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
>