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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> Thanks for your post Schinnerer, super comprehensive.

Thanks, and, I respectfully insist that I not be referred to by my last 
name.
Not even my very best friends get to call me by my last name.  Not more 
than a few times, anyhow, and I've had to chew on a few of them 
repeatedly to put a stop to it.

JohnS or johns or Johns or johnS or whatever is easiest to type if the 
space and the period in John S. are too much overhead, I don't care. 
Just not Schinnerer, or schinnerer either for that matter... ;-)

> I'll make my bugzilla account etc. sometime today, and all of us should do the
> same.

Speaking of which, I just created an actual project for 
permaculture.info in Bugzilla - it's the only project, so you don't have 
to worry about selecting the right one.
I also created a handful of example project components - UI, database, 
functional spec and test plan, just to make it a bit more realistic.

Chad, you will have gotten a few e-mails from bugzilla re that test bug 
you entered - I moved it to the new project and assigned it to you.
If you don't get some mails from bugzilla let me know ASAP.

> Related, you wrote "Read through Bugzilla help links and play around with it -
> create a bug or two, query bug database, ask me questions if something is
> unfathomable."  Does this apply to everyone?  I.e., are you expecting Scott
> and I to do this as well?  Or is this more for techie folks?  (hint hint)  I'm
> more than willing, but feel like I'd better spend my time grant-seeking...

Non-tech folks - especially non-developers - are some of the best 
testers.  You don't know too much, you're not too close to the code, you 
find the really really obvious stuff that the developers don't notice 
because they're the developers.

In other words, it would be great if everyone - especially non-tech 
folks - does some testing once there is something to test, and anyone 
testing needs to at least know how to enter a bug properly.  So no rush 
at the moment, and, please at some point take a look there, create an 
account, and play a bit.
I will put up a "how to write a really good bug" document to complement 
the bugzilla help, but it will be late this week most likely before I 
get to that.

> From a shared web workspace, you asked for "Support easy posting of standard
> format static documents. Support auto-annotated group work on docuemnts in
> progress."  Will we be able to get this from a wiki?

I don't know...my lack of enthusiasm for wikis is probably pretty clear 
but there may well be some that do the above just fine.

I think more of a CMS (content management system) might serve better 
than a plain wiki - TikiWiki claims to be a CMS as well as a Wiki, but I 
haven't looked into it enough to see if it does both the above.



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