From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Wed Mar 28 08:17:10 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 16:17:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 40038 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 16:16:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 16:16:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 16:16:23 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id LAA21266 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:23:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:23:24 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Re: [lojban] project management Message-ID: <20010328112323.N11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010327170856.N11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <3AC191BE.6215BF0A@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AC191BE.6215BF0A@gmx.de>; from b.gohla@gmx.de on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:24:46AM +0200 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:24:46AM +0200, Bjoern Gohla wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:38:04PM +0100, Bj?rn Gohla wrote: > > > coi rodo > > > > > > noticing recent postings on marketing lojban, i thought perhaps it > > > would be helpful to have an internet groupware site for project > > > management (cf sourceforge.org )facilitating better cooperation of > > > lojbanists on the various efforts. > > > > > > borrowing from the open source community we could use a cvs repository > > > to track the progress of a project, > > > > I think this is a _very_ good idea, not least because it would allow > > people to do little bits of stuff like luvo list work or bits of hamlet > > or whatever and > i am glad somebody finally responded to my posting > > > 1) Even that tiny bit of work would have meaning; even if it's just one > > lujvo it's now shared with everyone. > > > > 2) Everyone else could review the work. > > > > If there are no online sites that would host this sort of thing, I'm > > about 2 months from being able to host it myself (I own > > digitalkingdom.org) and would be happy to do so if that seems to be the > > best option. > > ideally though the repository would be integrated with the existing > website, giving it a makeover. thus keeping all the 'essential' lojban > documents in one place. > > the plainest implementation as i see it would be running just the cvs > pserver and webcvs (cf www.cvshome.org), farther reaching would be the > idea of using one of the groupware suites that i suggested. though > having tried to set up one of them on my machine at home i realized > that this would require a lot more dedication to set up and > maintainence (i would be happy to contribute). I don't think integrating it with the existing web site would be a good idea for exactly the reason you just mentioned: it's a non-trivial operation, and lojbab does _not_ have a lot of free time. I, OTOH, do, and I'm a UNIX admin for a living. 8) > i clearly see the danger of feature overloaded software, some of them > might still be desireable though, such as monitoring of who signed up > for what , or defining project goals and tracking the participants > assessment of how far they developed their project with respect to > the goal ,or calendering. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP