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  • From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[17][8.26.04]
  • Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:21:30 +0000

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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