AW: [Squeakfoundation]Brainstormin'

[Cees de Groot]

 <Sander.Tichelaar@daedalos.com> said:
>Ideally (IMO) there should be a Bugzilla- or SourceForge-like 
>bugtracking/enhancement request tracker, rather than a Wiki that gets outdated 
>rather quickly.
>
Not my experience. I've tried to use bugtrackers at some points, but they
invariably filled up with duplicate entries for unimportant things. I think
for starters, a Wiki project page setup, with:
- About the project
- Status, downloads
- Bugs/enhancement requests (probably a separate page with the 'add box' at
  the bottom)
with the project team actively cleaning the last page is enough. The only
thing you need to make sure is to clearly define and limit the scope of the
project, and make it a minimal scope. A single Wiki page is much harder to
turn into a dustbin than a Bugzilla database, IMHO. 

The important thing is 'metadiscussion', I think. I once took away MS
Project, Bugzilla, and some assorted tools from a team  and gave them
a Wiki in return.  The reason they were happy campers after a while is
that we took some trouble to discuss how to best use the Wiki for keeping
track of issues, discussing new designs, etcetera. Since then, whenever
I have a chance to excercise my sadistic dark side as a Project Manager
;-}, when I open my toolbox the team will only find a mailing list and
a Wiki in there and I won't consider anything else for at least 6 months. It
takes a bit of work, but it works. 

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