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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Never read Carl Fogel's advice before but I have to find myself
agreeing with him.  I am a mailing list person.

Still Ola is right - there is a whole lot of stuff happening on
launchpad and elsewhere which we need to track.  One approach is an
ancient one adopted by the tcl project (still the greatest little
programming language ever invented) where some one of us takes the
responsibility once a week to write a short summary of DHIS2
happenings to this list - http://wiki.tcl.tk/228.  Any new blueprints.
 Changes to existing ones.  Summary of interesting discussions.  Great
bugs which were squashed etc.  The tcl community have weekly archives
going back to 1998 of messages with a subject line "Tcl-URL".  It has
worked very well and has been copied by many projects.

The idea is that someone does it for a month or two then passes on the baton.

Any takers?  I will give it a go if no one else wants to, though maybe
someone who has been with the project longer would do it better.

Regards
Bob

2009/5/14 Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>:
> We should follow Carl Fogel's advice and follow discussion only on mailing
> lists... Blueprints could act as outcome of those discussion or to summarize
> discussions
>
> ... And there are better ways to see the roadmap than what launchpad is
> showing us :(
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
> Director R & D, HISP India
> Health Information Systems Programme
>
> My Tech Blog:  http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com
> You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE
>
>
> 2009/5/14 Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Launchpad does not send out e-mails to the list when new blueprints
>> (feature requests, design ideas) are created  like it does when new bugs are
>> reported. Although its perfectly possible to follow the blueprints by
>> visiting the launchpad pages I have a feeling that we are loosing out on a
>> lot of important discussions here.
>>
>> So here is a reminder to those of you that are interested in following and
>> influencing the DHIS development that you should monitor changes to this
>> page:
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2
>>
>> If blueprints are administered properly (release series and milestonse
>> being set) this page gives a more roadmap like view:
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/trunk/+specs?show=all
>> (Especially if you click two times on the Milestone column heading to sort
>> by milestone.)
>>
>> I feel some of the more important blueprints should be discussed on the
>> list and not only using the blueprint window in launchpad, what do others
>> think about this?
>> Maybe a good practice could be to write an e-mail to the list after
>> registering a blueprint, to let people know about it and invite to a list
>> discussion/feedback round?
>> I guess not all blueprints are worth discussing, but then again, it's a
>> big heterogeneous network and we do not really know what all the others are
>> interested in either...
>>
>> best regards,
>> Ola Hodne Titlestad
>> HISP
>> University of Oslo
>>
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