dhis2-devs team mailing list archive

[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK but go easy - this is meant to be a weekly thing not an annual!  By
all means put your implementation stories on the wiki, then send an
email to the list which I will probably pick up on - or send me a mail
directly with the link.

Regards
Bob

2009/5/15 Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>:
> woooh!! So we have a new DHIS Newsletter... If someone can also add
> implementation stories/news and send it to Bob, nothing like it!!
>
> ---
> 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
>
>
> 2009/5/15 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> OK.  I will attempt a weekly round up.  Because of the relatively high
>> frequency the content will be short mostly consisting of links.  I
>> will use Cameron Laird's example here -
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/9986800b92ce96be - as
>> my guide.  Notice there are only 8 news items.
>>
>> Look out for a mail with subject line DHIS2-URL! sometime between
>> Sunday and Monday.
>>
>> Regards
>> Bob
>>
>> 2009/5/14 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
>> > ---------
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> 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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