Re: [Gretl-devel] new tracker for incompatible changes
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> quickly @b: I'm not sure right who may edit it. I have set some
> permissions, where the six gretl developers I could identify in
> the sourceforge list are made admins of that new tracker. I'm
> not sure what that means for regular (logged-in) users, it would
> be nice if someone who's not in the sourceforge gretl developers
> list could test.
I wonder if we might be better with a cvs-controlled log of
incompatible changes, much like the current ChangeLog.
I've done a mock-up of this; it's not linked to from the main
page, but you can find it at:
http://gretl.sourceforge.net/Backward.html
Any thoughts on the relative merits of these approaches?
I like the Changelog-style better. Pros:
a) no spam involved
b) it's rather easy to look for stuff: you open the web page, and
everything is there. If in the future the list greows, all you have to do
is press Ctrl-F and you're pretty much done.
c) requires very little maintenance, but more or less the same holds for
the SF tracker
d) optionally, it can be turned into an Emacs-style "forward-incompatible
unfeatures" (if you have no idea of what I'm talking about, never mind,
it's an in-joke)
Cons: none I can see right now.
While we're at it: the Changelog is nice, but not exactly newbie-friendly.
For the next release, it'd be nice if someone volunteered to write a
"Release Notes" page, more or less in the style of Abiword's
(http://www.abiword.org/release-notes/2.6.0.phtml) or Gnumeric's
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml).
There are several people on the devel list that I think would do an
excellent job (Sven, Andreas, Talha, to name but a few).
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti