Re: [Planner Dev] Community web site

[Kurt Maute <Kurt Maute us>]

Hi!

I'm very glad to hear that you guys are going to continue to maintain
'the application formerly known as MrProject'!  I think Planner has the
potential to be a powerful enterprise project management tool, but I
agree that a more community driven development approach is needed to see
that it gets there.

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 19:03, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> So, this is a little starter to see what you guys think should be on the
> new community web site. What information did you lack on the old pages,
> what information was not important and so on.

My most prominent thought is that I think Planner should be put on a
release schedule, with the features forecasted out by several cycles. 
Of course, in order to stick with the release schedule, we'll need folks
to step up and volunteer to either code the features or put up some cash
to get them coded.  This way, features will remain on the wish list
until its owned by someone.

Much of the traffic on the old MrProject list was oriented around when
features would become available.  It would be nice to be able to refer
folks to a schedule - even if its only partially committed to.

> It'd be nice to get something more dynamic than the old pages with
> perhaps a wiki, forum (or both) for users to discuss how to do various
> things, for polls on what might be interesting to look into in the
> future. As we mentioned we will have limited time, unless someone
> decides to pay for development of Planner, so a more community run page
> would be very nice.

I agree.  ...though I've never learned to wiki - it would be an
excellent way to give users a way to add content to the site.  

In terms of general site layout, I like how Anjuta has theirs laid out. 
Its clean and easy to navigate.  http://www.anjuta.org

On my favorite topic, documentation, I'm wondering if there's an easy
way to update the user guide on your site.  I recall the user guide on
the codefactory site wasn't necessarily updated at each release, and
that would be a good thing to do.  I'd be willing to do it if you'd be
willing to give me ftp access to a folder or some other way to update
the pages.  If not, that's fine.  I'll just continue to post them on my
site.

Getting a bit off topic, there's also the issue of the Spanish
translation that he posted to the MrProject-Devel list before it went
away.  Were you guys able to capture that? 

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Kurt Maute <Kurt Maute us>