We need a TODO list filled by all engine devs

[jK]

Neither wiki nor gobby/etherpad would be ideal for this. I hoped more for something that puts all relevant things on one page, which you can save in your opera session.
Also wiki would look ugly except you put each of your items into a custom <foo></foo> element, which makes stuff just more complicated, and then the width limited layout of the current css makes it even more unusable for it. So in the end no one would use it ...
Making a document in gobby/etherpad is limited per se by the using of a textformat.

At first I hoped that github would feature such project management capabilities, but it seems it doesn't.

But web2.0 let grew a lot of such projects, so here my 2 results of a short internet search:
http://www.teamworkpm.net/features-tasklists
http://whodo.es/explore/task

None of those satisfies me. There are many other sites in the web2.0 cloud but collaborative functionalities seem rare and when they exist they cost money, so finding the right one seems pretty hard

[hoijui]

What else do we really need in terms of formatting except titles and lists?
With a pure text format, we just define our own format for a task, and we can change, extend, or make stuff optional whenever we want, and each one of us. No fighting with a system where you need admin rights to add a new field to the task submission form, or making something optional and then again having a form with 10 fields, and only task openers can add collaborators, and...

compared to something like (in eitherpad, you could have this in your browser session):

Code: Select all

# Model Format cleanup
@branch: master
@started: December 2009
@devs Kloot, jk
We want to make ...

# AI Interface pureification
@branch: pureint
@started: June 2009
@devs hoijui
Cleanup the AI Interface:
* using skirmishAIId instead of teamId to identify Skirmish AI instances from within the engine
* Java AI Interface: replace JNA with JNI
* Java OO Wrapper: add Stub classes
...

The format can easily be changed, at any time, for example using a small AWK script. We can convert it to HTML easily, or to forum markup.
The whole setup is easy, and needs no maintenance except access rights.

As i get it, the important thing here is, that this is kind of only for engine devs, and i can not imagine anyone of us having problems working with text formats.


off-topic: should we probably advertise that we are looking for new engine devs?

[Argh]

should we probably advertise that we are looking for new engine devs?

Yes.

[thedude]

http://trac.edgewall.org/

[Forboding Angel]

Etherpad is epic win for something like this imo.