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["Charlie Poole" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

So my *second* post to this list was not about any of the topics
below. :-)

Please add

* Discussions of our own practices and how to do things like
  setting up a repository, merging changes, etc.

to the things we talk about.

Charlie

> -----Original Message-----
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> t] On Behalf Of Charlie Poole
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 2:29 PM
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> Subject: [Nunit-dev] Purpose of this List
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Welcome to the NUnit Developers list. I thought I'd start out 
> with a note describing the purpose I imagined for this list 
> as well as the team itself. Since our move to Launchpad is a 
> work in progress, a lot of it is open to discussion, so feel 
> free to give some feedback at this point. Once we have a 
> discussion - or if there is none - I'll create a shorter 
> statement of purpose to be sent to any new enrollees.
> 
> BACKGROUND
> There have been several iterations of change in the way the 
> NUnit project communicates. Most recently, I set up 
> nunit-discuss as a place for everything. It has covered user 
> help, best practices, suggested features, internal project 
> organization, nunit design and implementation issues and even 
> submittal and review of patches.
> 
> Lately, however, I've seen us spend what seems to me to be 
> too much time focused on technical developer discussion - how 
> to implement something - rather than on the value of the 
> feature under discussion - whether we want to implement it.
> I wouldn't mind the dev-oriented discussion if it didn't 
> drive out the user-oriented bit, but it seems that it does.
> So, that's one reason for a separate list.
> 
> Another reason is that we are re-structuring NUnit from a 
> single monolithic project to a set of projects. Currently, we 
> have a framework project and others (the gui for example) 
> will get set up as soon as that one is under way. I hope that 
> multiple projects will lead to an increase in participation, 
> which will lead to an increase in dev-oriented discussion, 
> another reason for a separate list.
> 
> But the biggest reason to have nunit-dev is that it is the 
> mail list or the nunit-xtp "superproject" - Launchpad calls 
> it a project group - which I see as the public interface to 
> nunit development. It should work no matter how we decide to 
> structure our projects.
> 
> With that said, here is my proposed statement of purpose...
> 
> PURPOSE
> 
> >>>>>>> This would be posted as our purpose
> This list is used for discussions about the development of 
> the NUnit Extended Testing Platform and its component 
> projects on Launchpad. 
> 
> Topics that are appropriate for discussion here include:
> 
> * The design of NUnit, it's component projects and
>   the interfaces between them.
> * Assignment and status of work on NUnit.
> * Scheduling of milestones and releases.
> * Discussion of reported bugs when the correct behavior
>   is not clear.
> * Proposals for changes and discussions of proposed changes,
>   including the implementation of new features.
> * Coordinating the review of patches, at least until we
>   define some other mechanism.
> * Proposals for new projects under the NUnit umbrella.
> * Discussions of responsibility between the different
>   component projects.
> 
> Some topics belong elsewhere:
> 
> * User support questions are handled on the nunit-discuss list
>   or - for some projects - the Launchpad Answers system.
> * New feature ideas should first be proposed and discussed in
>   a way that gives NUnit users an opportunity to provide feedback.
>   (This is currently done on the nunit-discuss list or the
>   NUnit ideatorrent on Sourceforge.)
> * Bugs should be reported using the bug-tracking mechanism
>   set up for each project.
> >>>>>>>>>   End of Purpose Posting
> 
> 
> Like I said, this is a draft, so let me know whether
> you think it covers what needs to be said.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> 
> 
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