Re: [stellation-res] Task/TODO Document Suggestion

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Dave Shields" <shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:50 AM
Subject: [stellation-res] Task/TODO Document Suggestion


> Stellation is a very ambitious project -- there are many
> outstanding tasks.
>
> For example, I can think of five or so tasks off the top of my
> head. Though many have been mentioned in the mail list, I think it
> would be useful to put together a Task/TODO document that describes
> known tasks, both to serve as a summary of ongoing work and also to
> attract new developers.
>
> If there is some interest in this, I volunteer to put together a first
> draft. Though for now this would all be on a single static web page,
> we should be able to offer more dynamic support, and a more congenial
> environment for collaboration, once our new server is available (this
> is supposed so happen sometime in early January).
>
> Each description would include a summary of the task, work done to
> date, estimate of urgency, one or more committers who have agreed
> to coordinate any work on the task, a list of known participants,
> and a Bugzilla entry number to be used to tracking relevant submissions.

This is a very good idea and I have some things to add to the Windows port
task.

>
> For example, here's a first cut at one of immediate interest:
>
> Topic: Windows Port -- Add Windows Support for an Open Source Database
Manager
>
> Priority: Urgent, needed ASAP, hopefully as part of alpha release
>
> Coordinators: Jonathan Gossage, Dave Shields (and I'm sure others)
>
> Summary:
>
>   Stellation currently only supports database managers for Linux. We
>   need to add Windows support ASAP. Current candidates include
>   Firebird (for which a Linux port is available), and MySQL. Though
>   there are some licensing issues re MySQL, we expect these will be
>   resolved, so there is no reason to hold off starting work on this.
>
> By the way, this suggestion was motivated by the recent exchange with
> Jeffrey Howard, as I realized the part of my recent message dealing
> with postgres 7.3, was just part of a task description, and that it
> might be useful to gather such descriptions together.
>
> I'm not sure just what to call this. Common usage is "TODO"; Eclipse
> uses "Task", so perhaps we should call this "Outstanding Tasks" (or is
> Outstanding an oxymoron in this context?).
>
Outstanding tasks is fine. Perhaps in contrast to "planned" and "completed".

>
> thanks,
> dave
>

Regards

Jonathan

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