Re: [Planner] Re: [Planner Dev] Community web site

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

tor 2003-11-13 klockan 04.56 skrev Kurt Maute:

Hi!

Moved discussion to planner-dev only.

> Unless you keep the release schedule fixed and let the enhancements
> float.??  Just a thought.  In my mind it might help shift the decision
> making power (and responsibility) for what gets included in each release
> to the user/development community.

We've tried this before. But with the current situation that might mean
doing a release without any changes. I kinda like time-based releases
though since that might help to get others to help out if they really
want a feature in. We can always try! :) 

Problem is that people will wonder what's going to be in each release
and we won't have an answer. By having a feature-based release we can
put up which tasks needs to be finished for the release.

> Sounds like a good plan.  It might also be nice to have a few topics in
> there focused more on project managment than the tool itself - which
> might be a good way to attract new users.

Yeah, I was thinking of initially have two categories:

* Installation

* Using Planner

but I think that you are right, we should probably have 

* Project Management

or something, where you can discuss project management more generally
(might be a bad name for the category though).

> The mockup looks good.  I like that the links are right out in front,
> and news items on the left hand pane.  I'm thinking it might also be
> good to let people sign up for 'free membership' - which you'd probably
> need for the Forums anyway, and allow them to post a profile with links
> to their favorite PM or GNU sites.

That'd be nice, not sure how much of these things are included in phpBB.
I like the idea of having free membership for something, in the long run
this could mean, access to writing in the forums, subscription to a
monthly PM news letter/tips-and-tricks in Planner-kinda thing :)

> > > 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? 
> > 
> > Yes, I commited it to CVS before the mailinglist went down.
> 
> Excellent.  I think that should be posted on the Planner site as well,
> although I tried a few times to do a transformation on it, but the
> special characters he used kept generating errors... something about the
> input not being proper UTF-8.?  I'm not sure how to deal with that.

OK, I haven't tested it, we can make sure it works when we have commited
the planner source code to CVS. We've merged libmrproject and mrproject
source codes and cleaned up a bit.

I was thinking of using Movable Type to manage the site, it's really a
blogging software but works pretty well as a CMS tool as well. We use it
for another project already http://loudmouth.imendio.org/.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal
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