Re: [KJ] what about a wiki to keep track of individual ToDo items?

From: Ira Snyder <kernel@irasnyder.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] what about a wiki to keep track of individual ToDo items?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:32:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070119113222.4aea5cc1.kernel@irasnyder.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701190705420.24375@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:05:15 -0800
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 19.01.2007 [07:13:03 -0500], Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 
> >   at the risk of throwing out a wild and crazy idea, is there any
> > value in transforming the current static ToDo list into wiki format,
> > with one wiki page per task?
> > 
> >   as it is, the current list:
> > 
> > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo
> > 
> > gives lots of suggestions for things to do, but there's absolutely no
> > indication of whether these items are still relevant, which ones have
> > been completed, which ones are underway, who's working on each one and
> > so on.
> > 
> > it would seem to make more sense to restructure the ToDo list so that
> > each outstanding item has its own wiki page, where janitors can report
> > that they're working on that item, how far along they are, whether
> > they have questions, ask for assistance or clarification, etc.
> > 
> > as one example, even something as simple as trying to formalize that
> > "power of two" stuff recently generated a boatload of KJ list traffic
> > that could have just been discussed on a single wiki page.
> > 
> > is this doable?
> 
> I started the process of moving to the wiki'ized page, then dropped it
> out of laziness (apparently). If you're interested in moving more stuff
> there and separating into a mainpage with links to all the others, that
> would be great.
> 
> Note, a wiki can't replace a mailing list. I'm not going to go watch a
> webpage change, but I will read the posts to a mailing list :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Nish
> 

Agreed. I think that wiki-izing the TODO list is a good idea. It certainly would have helped me find things to do when I was looking, and I'm sure it would help when I start looking for things to do again.

I also agree that I won't be able to follow changes to a webpage easily. I'd much rather follow a mailing list. But having some simple status information on the wiki page would be beneficial. Just name / email address and date started would probably be enough.

Ira
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