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[Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>

I like this idea Bob. Lars has tried something similar with the Development
Update mail, but that is not frequent enough and I haven't seen it for a
while.
We are quite poor at communicating new ideas (blueprints), features
implemented (commit mails so not always give the full picture), work in
progress etc and this has consequences around the network. People are facing
the same problems in different countries and often end of with duplicating
efforts due to poor communication across borders. I definely support this
weekly summary e-mail and think you're an excellent candidate Bob to get
this off the ground. If you miss out on something I am sure others can fill
in with replies to the summary mail, so no need to worry about not being in
the project long enough. Great initiative!

Ola
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>
> 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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