On Dec 15, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Pierre-François Gomez wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> It may not be the time to sum things up yet, but here are some of the
> the good ideas I read so far :
>
> - having a central web site where one can have a glimpse at what the
>   garderners are working on, "filtered" by categories so that one  
> would
>   just pick the tags he's interested in and have a list of what the  
> gardeners
>   are up to (or not) in this particular category(ies) : to me, it  
> justs sounds
>   like a poor description of our new Lisp Directory (and Knowledge  
> Base,
>   yes, but it's a pretty long name :)

I plan to create a CL Gardener's Projects page on lispniks.com as  
soon as we have a few more projects to keep track of. If anyone wants  
to take a crack at creating such a page they can email it to me and  
I'll put it up or muck with it and put it up or something.

> - some means of communication : traditional mailing list + website at
>   lispnicks.com

Thats lispniks.com No "c".

> - a versioning system such as subversion (used for the faq, i believe)

I intend to set up subversion on liskniks.com for CL Gardener  
projects that need it. That'll probably include the CL Gardener's web  
site.

> But I feel we're missing something which could allow us to  
> visualize the
> progress of each "task", some kind of a bug tracking system, though  
> I'm
> not sure we really need something as complex as bugzilla for now...  
> and
> I can't find any lisp bts out there but one called docutrack on  
> common-lisp.net
> (just discovered it, don't have any link handy besides http:// 
> common-lisp.net/project/docutrack/)
>
> What do you think ? Do we need yet another tool ? Can this be done  
> using
> existing ones ?

As you guys will discover, I try really hard to remember to live by  
the mantra "the simplest thing that can possibly work".[1] Which in  
this case means not deploying a bunch of tools to solve problems we  
don't have yet. (And conversely, deploying those tools as soon that's  
the simplest thing.) At the moment there's only one "task" that I'm  
aware of--Michael Forster volunteered to compile a list of Lisp  
links. Let's wait until we start loosing track of what we're all  
working on before we worry about deploying task tracking tools.

-Peter

[1] I say "try to remember to live by" because I'm as bad as the next  
software guy when it comes to wanting to dive right in and try and  
solve every problem with software. But I've also learned over and  
over again that giving in too quickly to that impulse is often a bad  
idea. So I try and remember that.

-- 
Peter Seibel           * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/
Practical Common Lisp  * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/


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