[Gnumed-devel] Re: users & dev lists

[Gour]

>>>>> "James" == James Busser <address@hidden> writes:

Hello James,

James> So far, AFAIK, there are no "users" who are not also either
James> developers, or at least interested to still receive the
James> development mail.

Heh, atm, I'm just 'user' in the sense I'm not contributing to the
project.

James> In addition, the project is still at such an early stage that at
James> least some of the developers would want to know what users are
James> running into, and what ideas the users would have.

Having both users & devs list does not prevent someone to watch the two.
:-)

James> Your idea is a good one in principle and it is just a question of
James> what is a suitable time. I think that as soon as three or more
James> people found a good reason to want to share discussions that the
James> -devel subscribers would rather be split off, we could create the
James> list. At this stage, most people on -devel may rather not need to
James> be on a second list so would prefer them collapsed.

Hmm, by looking at the recent discussion on the list, I'd say that lot
of traffic is for 'users' list - usage problems.

If something comes up in the users-list like 'feature request', I'd say
it has to go in the tracker, otherwise there is pretty good chance it
will be forgotten,

So, I'm still convinced that there is place for gnumed-users NOW and we
have to make better use of bug tracker.

I'm in the planning stage for some project and we have a mailing list +
bug tracker (roundup) and everyone interested for some tracker issue can
be put on the tracker's list and get informed what's going on.

Launchpad also has nice facilities for those things - see

https://launchpad.net/+tour/index 

So, my idea is to have gnumed-users for discussing usage of GNUmed and
every feature request should go to the bug-tracker.

Bug-reports (traces etc.) can go to the gnumed-devel list and then
developers can open tickets on the tracker.

Similarly, discussing development issues on gnumed-devel has to produce
new tickets on the bug tracker as well.

Launchpad is really a nice project by offering facilities for:

- bug tracking
- code hosting
- translation team(s)
- package building
- blueprints and
- community support


It's time to work on building GNUmed community...


Sincerely,
Gour


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