FWIW, I spoke with Alex the other week about turning piano-man into a more finished product.
So long as core guarantees that they'll at least take a look at whatever is made, I'm +1 on rolling our own, and am willing to champion this project. I think having something we can easily shape to meet our process needs will be a Good Thing. A good ticket tracker helps devs paw through the pile of tickets and keep kicking the ball forward with a minimum of effort. Reducing the overhead on core will make those people's lives more pleasant (and free up their time for dealing with, you know, code.) Another benefit: one of the complaints I (anecdotally) hear all the time is that it is hard to contribute to django. Part of that is the high bar we set for contribution, and the (necessary) process we impose in order to prevent oopses, but I posit that a significant part of the feeling stems from people confusing a lack of activity on their ticket with a lack of activity. Making it easier for devs to update tickets will help, and providing some kind of dashboard on project stats will give us something to point to next time somebody throws their toys out of the pram because their pony isn't being seen to. I'll be in Berlin, and plan to sprint on piano-man there. Plan: 1. Figure out a handful of "most useful" tricks that trac doesn't accomplish, and adding those to piano-man. I particularly like the idea of baking in some behaviors like timed ticket death and other things that prevent a buildup of detritus and cut down on ticket gardening chores. 2. Put up a test instance with a dump of data from trac. 3. Kick the tires and see if it engenders interest. If people think it's awesome, we'll keep going. :) -I -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
