From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ira Snyder Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:32:22 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] what about a wiki to keep track of individual ToDo items? Message-Id: <20070119113222.4aea5cc1.kernel@irasnyder.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:05:15 -0800 Nishanth Aravamudan 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 _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors