Re: [Trion-kernel-dev] Is the project still active?

[Stephen M. W. <ste...@br...>]

Sergey Kuznetsov wrote:
> What if we will make some brain storm here ( I love brainstorming ) what
> do we need on the web-site,
> and later make the voting on the topics and will assign priorities on
> each feature.
> 
> When we will agree what features nd information we need there, it will
> be way easier to implement it.
> Later we will need some kind of bug tracker and so on, so on, so on.

Agreed.

I'll get the ball rolling by listing what I think should be available.

The starting point is the home page.  This page should contain static 
areas with a brief description of what Trion is and links to other pages 
including but not limited to the following.

(1) downloading Trion (source snapshot, devkit for Win32 & Linux)

(2) the SourceForge project page for (2.1) bug tracking and (2.2) 
contact information,

(3) documentation (a wiki seems good for this)

(4) a (dynamic) news display for posting recent news items for the 
project in general.

Contact information and how-to-contribute information should also be 
repeated on the web page, probably through a secondary page.

We have three target audiences I would like to address in the long run.

(1) kernel developers
(2) application developers
(3) application users

I think at this point all we really need to be concerned with is kernel 
developers, but once a "shell" is up and running (whatever that may mean 
for our purposes), application developers will become very important. 
Once the kernel is shellable, we can start worrying about voting for 
features and so on, but there's no point until I can get a userspace 
hello-world app appearing on my monitor.

I think for the short run the bug tracking through SourceForge works 
well.  I'm not a big fan of forums:  I would prefer using the mailing 
list for support but I'm open on that count.  The wiki concept works 
well for documentation as its developing and can be captured later into 
a more formally published form.

All this should be tweaked for consistent look-and-feel, using that 
snazzy Trion logo and colour scheme (although other appearance details 
are up for discussion).


Okay, next?

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Stephen M. Webb
ste...@br...